Several pieces of furniture that belonged to the Worthingtons are featured in the restored home. The new furnishings plan highlights those pieces of furniture. Especially significant is the furniture built by George McCormick for Adena at Adena.

"Mr. Worthington has got a Brussels Carpet for the drawing room two hair bottomed Sophas [sofas], handsome chairs and a mantle glass. James and I among others that dined there on Thursday last."

Nancy Swearingen, 4 January 1818

A sofa purchased by Worthington in 1817 in Philadelphia. The sofa has been re-upholstered in imitation horsehair.

"The hair of animals is employed in various articles of furniture. . . . Hair is. . . woven into a cloth for covering chairs and sofas. The best for all purposes is horse hair; but that from tails of bullocks is also good. . . . The long straight hair is reserved for weaving into cloth for chair bottoms, for which purpose it is first dyed a deep black. The sating manner of weaving it is now most generally adopted as the most agreeable and the most durable. Hair is a very lasting substance, not being liable to decay through ordinary causes. It is insoluble in water, but is acted upon and dissolved by alkalies; much soap, of course, injures it."

(From, Thomas Webster, An Encyclopaedia Of Domestic Economy
(New York, 1845), p. 221)