An important part of the Adena restoration has been the installation of authentic wallpapers in the house. Two of the rooms have custom made replicas of the original wall paper.

The earliest wallpapers were developed in the 1400s as a way to decorate walls that was less expensive than mural painting and tapestries. The use of wallpaper increased over time. Wallpapers were expensive through the early 1800s. Only with the development with mass production techniques in the mid-1800s did they become affordable to middle- and then working-class Americans.

The wallpapers used at Adena were produced using the same methods as the wallpaper that Thomas Worthington purchased. Pieces of paper were glued together to form a roll. A ground color was painted on the paper with a brush. Then a pattern was printed using wood blocks-one block for each color in the design. The more colors in a paper, the more expensive it was.