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Show -3- "The chambers are dreams of beauty. The principal one belonqinq to Mrs. McCune is furnished in a white enamel and pink brocade and whitelace in its furnishinqs. Mr. tkCune's room is oval in plan and was designed as much for il den as for a chamber rest. It has a larqe fireplace of Utah onyx while the finish of the room is of sgecially selected red mahoqany. The three concave doors of this room are cut from the same log. (There is a story to them also). Each door is one solid oiece with hand carved panels. The walls are hung in ~olden green Russian leather set with old brass nails. The ceilinq is beamed with a larqe mahogany cornice running around the entire room. "There are six other private and guest rooms on this floor and it would be difficult to decide which is the greater merit. The two guest rooms with their private bath are exquisite in design and finish. UThe bathroom which connects the two chambers on one side have the floor, walls, and ceiling of pure white Carrara Marble from which marble the Italian sculptors moulded their statuary. The texture between this and ordinary marble is as the difference betv/een calico and velvet. The larqe mirror fills one side of the bathroom and reflects the fireplace opposite. It contains a recess needle bath, arranged for a spray, vapor, and shower bath. The broad hand around the mirror is a glass mosaics . Going up to the ballroom one enters at once into the real~ of a fairy land. There are four alcoves, while the walls on every side reflect vistas innumberable. The artificial marble called scageola, which forms most of the furnishings of this ballroom required importation ofa man from Germany, and he was eight months in making this, at that time, practically unknown composition. Leading from the ballroom is the banquet room. This is a copy of a famous hall in an Enqlish manor. Finished in mahogany with beamed ceiling, and frieze from the top of the wainscottinq is the most remarkable work. It portrays the hunting scene s , ~~odlands, and haunts of Robin Hood and Rob Roy . . In conclusion, I might suggest that nearly all the art journals of Europe and AMerica have contained able and commendary criticism of this house. Particularly I ~i~ht tnention one article written by one of the foremost authors of this day in the Architectural Record of July, 1907. I would also say that in all PlY work in this house, I m'le the lnspiration and success thereof to the quiet tact, masterly handling and artistic suggesting of Mrs. A.W. McCune. |
