Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1880-11-19
A NOBLE HOME
WHERE EMPRESS EUGENIE WILL SPEND
HER DAYS

WHERE EMPRESS EUGENE WILL SPEND
HER DAYS.
The house, or mansion" which the
empress Eugene has Just purchased,
was built under the superintendent of
an eminent architect, by the late Mr..
Longman. 1t is no fimsy, inconsistent
structure, but a substantial and admir-
able specimen of early English, the
lower part of red brick, with dressings
and mulioned windows of stone, and
the upper also of brick, but rendered
over in cement and picturesquely re-
heved by panels in teak. The whole
building has a comfortable, homelike
look, and the eye rests content on the
beautifully wooded and park-like
grounds surrounding it. In short, the
empress recent purchase is type of an
English country seat. A couple of car
riage drives, with corresponding lodge
entrances, lead to a handsome portico
paved with tiles, through which you
pass to the entrance hall; beyond, up a
fight of steps, is a stately inner hall or
corridor Here is the principal stair
case, leading to magnificent suite of
reception rooms. The drawing room is
superb, and the outlook through its
bay and triangular windows on the
lawn and grounds, with the groups of
stately trees dotted here and there, is
thoroughly charming Opening out of
this stately salon is a smaller and more
cosy one. The library is nearly twenty
five feet square, noble, oriel Widowed
chamber, harmonizing with the ideas
Of modern refinement.
A word about the first floor You
enter lengthy corridor, over the inner
hall, leading to the principal bedrooms,
of which there are eight, and two dress
ing rooms, while, in the wing of the
house, approached by second corridor,
are six secondary bedrooms, and stair
case, by which you get to the clock
tower. On the second floor are eight
additional secondary and servants bed
rooms, each floor, bien entendu, having
its bedrooms. The domestic offices are
completely shut off from the inner hall;
there are large kitchen, scullery,
housekeepers room, servants hall, pan
tries, dairy, storerooms; extensive ranges
of cellars, with furnace and smokeroom
for the heating apparatus and bath
rooms. To get an idea of the marvel
GUS completeness and self-contained
character of the place, remember that
all the gas used in the house is made on
the estate, that water is supplied by
steam power, and that there are hydrants
both inside and out in case of fire.
There are pleasure grounds all around
the house-some six acres of velvet
lawn and emerald turf; lawns, flower
beds, terrace walks, strawberries, lawn
tennis and croquet grounds, all in ex'
treme good taste and skilfully planned
The park, which alone covers sixty-eight
acres of ground, and the woodlands have
serpentine walks and drives; the timber
is remarkably fine, and beside the or
binary forest trees there are some speci
mems of very rare conifer@. There
should be plenty of game, and as fol
fishing there are ornamental lakes, witt
wooded hills, boat house and a fishing
cottage, or summer house, with a fire
place, so that in winter it will come OF
well for skating parties. A cricket
ground is planned, so that there will bt
amusement for everybody. A kitchen
garden covers three acres, and there are
greenhouses, wineries, peach, camellia
cucumber, and melon houses; anG
finally come couple of three-stal
stables, with six loose boxes, all mos
complete and spacious, as we'll as the
usual harness room, coach houses, cot
tage for the coachman, and bedrooms
for the grooms. There are, in all, ninC
cottages on the estate, including ont
for the bailiff, adjoining very exten
sive range of farm buildings, with the
neighboring gasometer and gas ant
boiler houses. Finally, to be quite
exact, there is farm, which is let. -
Whitehall Recje,C.