The daily Cairo bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1878-1???, 1880-12-24
The House that Albert Grant Built In
London.


London.
London Times.
The house has never yet been in
habited. Mr.. Grant began building
it in August, 1872, saving acquired
the freehold site by protracted series
of negotiations. Mr.. T. j. Knowles
was the architect. The style in
which he built was mixture of Re-
naissance and Italian. The material
is stone. The size of the rooms is very
great, and makes them suitable only
for public purposes or for person
whose chief object in owning the
house would be to give great enter
tainments. The exterior is not mag
nficent INTELLECTUALLY, except by
reason of its size and obvious costli-
ness. 1t is villa built of most valu-
able materials. and very large aud
well-proportioned, but has little
charm of style. The interiors; grand
or and more striking. 1t is decorated
by Mr.. Frederick Sang. The portico
is supported by two great pillars of
red Aberdeen marble, and this gives
admission into a lofty central hall,
from which on each side rise marble
stairs, lighted by windows Of colored
and ornamental glass, the landings
supported by stone caryatids. This
vestibule is paved with mosaic, and
leads to side halls which give access
on the left or east to the picture gall
lery, on the right to the dining room,
etc. The main feature Oh the east
side of the house is the long music
saloon, with a lofty ceiling painted
in French style, with CupiIs playing
the Pan-pipes, the Tyre, and instru-
ments unknown TO the ancients-the
fiddle and the violoncello. The walls
are decorated half with portraits Of
Sir Peter Lely's beauties and half
with pictures OF Continental beauties,
and the doors leading to the picture
gallery represent in the foreign half
OF the room Versailles, and in the En-.
glish half Richmond. The picture
gallery is nearly as long as the ball
room and leads into the blue drawing
room, which has panels of light blue
inclosed in frames of cream and gold.
On the painted ceiling the Loves are
playing with flowers, and shooting
with the bow. Across the glass
domed conservatory ia prolongation
of the entrance halD the way is made
into the yellow drawing-room, where
the panels are yellow and the frames
blue. On the painted ceiling Love
has grown to Hymen, and accompan-
les his mother with lighted torch
in his hand. A long passage leads to
the dining-room, divided at will in
two by screen which rises up or
sinks after the manner Of portcullis.
The Loves on the ceiling tread the
winepress, fish among the water-lil-
les, shoot at ground game and carry
feathered game home. On the same
floor are a library with portraits Of
Chaucer, Shakespeare, Milton and
Bacon; billiard-room, dressing
rooms and morning-rooms. There
are three floors above, from which, in
front, fine view of Kensington Pal
ace and gardens is afforded. The un-
ID er-ground accommodation is large
enough to contain half the cellars in
Harley street. The house is warmed
by not-water pipes under brazen
gratings. The floors are in marquet-
erie, in oak, and in pitch-pine. The
skirtings i'll the passages are of mar
BILE; those Of the dining-room are of
oak.
The grounds contain an orangery,
lakes (on which on Saturday canoes
were placed, beautiful plantations of
trees, etc, and give access, through
paths difficult to discover for any one
who has not the map Of the country,
to an American bowling alley, green
houses and the stables. The stables,
with sixteen stalls and four loose box
es, might have well been let separate
ly, but appear to have been long UNI
tenanted. In the garden in front Of
the house there is large triple elm.
A lime tree was left in the public
path OH setting back the boundary
ratings TO give regularity TO the
front.