Cincinnati daily press. [volume] (Cincinnati [Ohio]) 1860-1862, 1861-04-04
Modei DweIIing. house in Boston.


Boston correspondent of the New York
Evening Post has the following:
Two or three years ago wealthy and in
telligent mechanic-a cabinet-maker aud
Joiner by trade, now dealer in pine lumber
possessed, among other goods, of a remarka-
BILE wife, lady of taste, culture, enterprise
and energy quite xtraordinary-conceived
the idea of building two houses such as had
never been built. He owned at the time q
large quantity of very valuable fine woods
of the most costly varieties-mahogany
satin wood, rosewood, &c, which had under
gone twenty years seasoning; and he said
one day to his wife: "Do you design such
house as you want, and | will build it and
country, at least, never saw"
No sooner said then commenced Mrs.
-- designed it from foundation to roof,
laying every partition, fixing the place of
every door, closet and recess, giving all the
orders, and so continuing with the zeal and
insight of true artist, until now, fRiS coro.
natl Are you enough interested to go into
the opus
The house is of handsome brick, with
brown treestone caps and sills, steps, door
posts, &c. Let US enter through the rich
and massive front door of deliberately. carved
rosewood. Here is vestibule beautifully
fTescoed by foreign artists; pass throueh b
another or inside door, glazed with richly
wrought French plate glass, and we are in
the main hall, and before us, on the, right
rises the principal staircase, built of solid
mahogany-the most costly varieties--steps,
risers, balusters, rails, &c, and designed not
to be carpeted.
The entire hall is wainseoted to the hight
of three feet with the richest. carved Gothic
holdings of the same rich wood, the finish
| being that of the finest cabinet work The
doors, "a deur bdttGns," which enter the par
lor from the ball, are ten feet high, exquis
itely wrought, and so skillfnlly fitted and
| hung, that child's little finger will give the
| impulse necessary to shut them and when
| shut, you can not pass the blade Of pen
knife between the wings.
| The papers, imported expressly from Paris,
are of the most beautiful patterns, the win.
dow, glass the heaviest French plate. The
staiTcases and'doors are of enormous cost. In
every room, excepting the parlors, even to
the attic chambers, are 'commodes," or
chests of drawers of various sizes, adapted to
the wants and fancies of housekeepers, to the
number of 1870 in each house.
These are all faced with the incest woods
of pianoforte polish, and the incest cabinet
workmanship; dark cedar closets for liner
and clothing, conveniently disposed on diff
ferent stories extra bsthing-rooms; hand
some billiard-room, with floor Of marque
;eTi1, expensive table and exquisitsiy -iniait
cues; water in every conceivable, and il
some hitherto unconceived forms, of con
yenience, is found everywhere, high an'
| low.
At the foot of the front stairs, as an. orna
ment to the rail.post, a spaniel, exquisitell
carved, is curled up asleep, perfectly true u
| nature. This trille cost 800. So perfect i
the whole establishment, that it would Civ
me pleasure 10 descend 10 minor details, o
wine closets, heating-appafetus and mum
berless other items going to show how per
fectly the whole work is carried out; but hav
taken already more space than | intended
Why should not such house be thrown opel
| TO the public for a few weeksP II certainly
would be in Europe. ,i Icy p y.