Ellsworth American. [volume] (Ellsworth, Me.) 1855-current, 1875-06-17
A PENNSYLVANIA Palace.

We lip from the Philadelphia Time,
following description OF "Ogontz." for.
i"eI " tht paa,iM residence OF JAY Cooke,
bHt now IN tn hand, ot Iii, creditors for
>.ttr
~ Il net flr from the city Of Ogontz A:
hui 4 short twenty minutes, railroad ride
lhfpH9h "a" beautiful country OF rural
lhiIa'l"lPhll aud lower Montgomery ana
~" VISITOR lands on III" Old York road
station. aud then, walking beside a we'll
Ntut turnpike for half a mile, he see, be.
lore MN the long sweep OF green thick set
h"'l@" that fronts and encircles the cIc g.
cilpPed slowly rising lawn at whose So. ...
mt stands the stately mansion once tr,.-
Hnttd BY the great tinancier. from the eli
ltrt "i whose sudden downfall the com.
pIcN business interests OF great nation
nave not yet recovered. A pretty gray
stone lodge stands by the gate. and enter
ln@ a broad avenue leads with a great
s"lnglng curve to the front Of the house.
It"h winch 4 similar avenue. stretches
away % another gate and porterS lodge
AT The upper road front OF the grounds
while directly from the centre ofthe build
ny straight. wide graveled walk. enclos-
ed on either side bv a tall hedge of Nor
way spruce. leads To The counterfeit pre-
grown with creeping plants. In the rear
the grounds slope slowly downward
through grove OF tall chestnets to a pret-
~ brook, whose waters here and there
gurSle over and around the great stones
lhat endtaVor to bar their passage. In
front. the grounds are all that the most
ccnsummate skill Of the landscape car
deher could create. wi lie from the rear of
the house. down the forest clad hill. and
across the brook 10 the long stone wall
bounds the estate on that side. all save the
clearing of the underbrush from amonp
the trees i nature, charming as ALWAYS
when lett to her own Sweet self The
mansion placed amidst all these artificial
and natural beauties is indeed a lordlv
pile. Built in the Italian style, of a cheer
lui gray stone. qnarried on the farm of the
estate, with dressings OF Quincy cut gran.
ite, four stories in height with two towers
each story higher. it looms above the
tall trees landmark tor miles around. On
the hrst floor Is wide porch on each side,
IN the rear porte cochere, and on the
front AN Italian balcony, and adjoining the
corner tower beautiful conservatory.
The rooms within are large and hand
some parlor and library, dining-room mu-
SIC room. sitting-room. office, pantry. and
billiard room and thirty-one spacious bed
rooms, besides store rooms. bath rooms,
etc. All through the house are great
wide halls and grand stairways finished in
hard wood, and every convenience that the
invention of the times can apply, and
everywhere there are paintings and statu-
airy and rare engravings-and rich car
pets, costly furniture lace curtains of rare
beauty and price, bric-a-brac, articles of
vertu, and the numberless pretty and cost
ly adornments that the professor of ex-
quisite taste and boundless wealth can
alone gather and command. Begun in
1864, and every day suggesting some new
beauty or convenience to be added or an
old one improved upon, the house and
grounds were scarcely completed when. on
the 18th of September. 1874, Jay Cooke
Il Co. became bankrupt. and within one
week yielding all he possessed to his cred
itors. MIR. Cook removed forever from the
magnificent home he had created"