Editor’s Note: Yesterday, Jay Nordlinger began a series, with an explanation of its prompting at the top. For Part I, go here. The series concludes today.

Most of our readers, and most of our respondents, are American — and many nominated Independence Hall in Philadelphia. Some did so with an air of, “Is there any debate?”

A sample: “Goodness, Jay, it’s not even a very close call.”

Another reader writes,

The context of your question suggested a primarily aesthetic criterion; but if historical significance weighs in the balance, I’d nominate the Assembly Room, Independence Hall, Philadelphia — where delegates from May to September 1787 wrote the U.S. Constitution. IMHO, the apotheosis of human efforts to fashion a sustainable, decent society. (And quite fine aesthetics too.)

This reader continues,

First runner up (historical significance): the map room in the schoolhouse in Reims, France, where Alfred Jodl, representing Germany, signed the documents of surrender, ending WWII in Europe.

I think you’ll get a kick out of this letter, as I did:

As far as fine interiors and fine spaces go, I am tempted to nominate the Banqueting Hall at Whitehall, most of Wilton House, any Georgian Palladian double cube, the Adam interiors at Syon House, and the entire city of Bath.
I am yet more inclined to suggest the Bodleian generally and Rad Cam particularly. And sentimentally, I am very fond of Lee Chapel, in Lexington, Va., on the campus of Washington and Lee University.
Musically, it were hard to quibble with the Musikverein’s Goldener Saal [Vienna].
But were I forced to nominate an interior for its actual importance, and not its style, I’d not hesitate a moment: even as against Independence Hall. The Cabinet War Rooms, hands down (or V-sign and cigar raised aloft).

I received a wonderful note from an architect who began with a discussion of criteria. Then he said, “Okay, all that talkitecture nonsense behind me, here are three interior spaces I have found to be particularly moving, or inspirational, or graceful, or fine.”

He nominated the Thorncrown Chapel, in Eureka Springs, Ark. The National Building Museum in Washington. And the National Library of France (Paris).

As will not surprise you, several readers nominated the Sistine Chapel. Does the Duomo in Florence count? St. Peter’s? Hagia Sophia? They don’t belong in this game, do they?

How about Sainte-Chapelle in Paris? I think so. (It had a nomination.)

My man Kevin Williamson writes, “My Italian experience is limited, but my vote is for St. Paul Outside the Walls.”

There was a vote for the Hall of Mirrors at Versailles. (I love the way the nominator put it: “What do we look for in a room? If it’s elegance and pure wow factor, then it’s hard to beat the Hall of Mirrors.”)

A lady writes,

The Moses Room in the Palace of Westminster. My children and I visited the palace 15 years ago. We weren’t part of an official tour group, so we were self-guiding. We struck up conversations with employees along the way.
One gentleman asked if we’d like to see a room that wasn’t on any tour. Of course! He showed us the Moses Room, telling us about the room’s art and history. We felt like we’d hit the jackpot!

One reader said the Scottish National War Memorial in Edinburgh Castle.

Concert halls? Opera houses? I received nominations for Carnegie Hall, La Scala — and Mechanics Hall in Worcester, Mass.

Someone said — I loved this — “Does the Main Concourse of Grand Central Terminal count as a ‘room’? That’s my nominee.” Good one.

An econ prof said, “The Thomas Jefferson–designed Dome Room of the Rotunda at the University of Virginia, where I once attended a candlelight banquet honoring the free enterprise system!”

Beautiful (in every sense).

In Connecticut, there is a place called the Denison Homestead, also known as Pequotsepos Manor. It was built in 1717. A reader writes,

I am not confident in claiming the finest room in the world, but I know the finest room in Connecticut.
The Denison Homestead has rooms preserved from colonial times to the 1930s, and it is the ’30s parlor (called Aunt Annie’s Parlor) that is the finest room. It is replete with old books and comfortable furniture.
I used to work there as the docent, so if you are ever in Mystic I could give you the tour!

A reader nominates the Gothic Suite in the Hearst Castle (California), along with the aforementioned Morgan Library (New York City). He writes, “I can attest that they are achingly beautiful and are two of the best examples of the fruits of capitalism.”

By this last, he means, “If not for Morgan’s and Hearst’s personal wealth, many of the objects in each place would have been lost to history.”

A reader writes, “A few years ago, I was delighted to discover the lovely Art Deco natatorium on the 14th floor of the InterContinental Hotel in Chicago. It’s a great little secret.”

Johnny Weissmuller trained there.

A reader writes, “If you truly want to see one of the finest rooms in the world — at least in the New World — Google ‘New York state senate chamber.’ It has more gold on three walls than you’d find in the entire Munich Residenz, and kept the marble industry of Vermont thriving for many years in the 1800s.”

One more reader:

There is a fabulous room in Missouri that is my favorite in the world. When I was in college, I worked as an intern for a Missouri state senator. One of my jobs was to give tours of the capitol building to guests of his office. The highlight of the entire tour — and the place I tried to end on — was the House Lounge.
The room was painted in the ’30s by Thomas Hart Benton, and is a masterful history of the state, told in his distinctive art style, with a wonderful use of symmetry.

This is an exceptionally candid history, too — complete with Boss Pendergast and his shady dealings.

A reader from Houston nominates “the capacious lobby of the Hotel Galvez in Galveston, Texas, located bang on the Seawall and so close to the Gulf of Mexico that cool breezes flow through gigantic doorways even on the hottest summer day.”

Ahhh.

Another reader writes, “Have you ever been to the Biltmore Estate in Asheville, N.C.? Any number of rooms in that place could be in the running. Our own ‘little’ Versailles in the Blue Ridge Mountains.”

Back to Texas: for one reader writes, in essence, “Remember the Alamo!” Another reader sends a video of Pueblo Bonito, the grand house in Chaco Culture National Historical Park, located in northwestern New Mexico.

And there is a vote for the Heritage Room, Hillsdale College, Michigan.

A reader writes, “Jay, this is easy: the Champions Locker Room at Augusta National.” D’oh! Oh, yeah!

Another reader writes,

My nomination is the old baseball locker room in Jenison Fieldhouse at Michigan State. Some truly greats passed through — Robin Roberts, Steve Garvey, Kirk Gibson — and were led by terrific coaches like Danny Litwhiler.
All in all, a most fine room.
Thanks for accepting this nomination. Did it get any other votes?

I loved that.

Should we go fictional now? A reader cites four rooms: Nero Wolfe’s office on West 35th Street; Sherlock Holmes’s sitting room at 221B Baker Street; Doc Savage’s waiting room on the 86th floor of the Empire State Building; “and, of course, the Batcave!”

A reader says, “It’s more than possible that the finest room in the world is the legendary, lost Amber Room. I only hope that it is one day found and displayed for all to see.”

This dazzling room was known as the “Eighth Wonder of the World.” It was in a Russian palace. A casualty of World War II, apparently? People like to speculate.

At any rate, I thank you for playing. And, to end on a touch of mush, I should repeat that the finest room in the world — never mind the likes of Room 34 in Britain’s National Gallery — ought to be your room.

See you later.

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