Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1883-12-31

family. The front Or tower chamber is fin
ished in cherry and sycamore in the style
OF Henry VIII, and the hangings will be
in lavender and old gold. The other room
is in Roman style, finished in white or
curly maple, and the walls are hung in ma
room and old golo. Satin curtains in botr,
rooms will match sthe wall hangings,
and the ceilings of both will be elaborate
ly painted. The fireplaces in these rooms,
as in all the principal rooms of the house,
have finely designed and carefully executed
mantels in wood.
Mrs. Kittson's room at the south front
and opening from near the rear of the
main hall, has large square bay window
opening to the Romeo and Juliet" balcony
which covers the entrance from Selby
avenue. The room is elegantly finished
in beech and birch, in style designated as
German Renaissance, and is provided like
tbs other principal chambers with pretty
lavatory. On one side the room opens
into a private bath room, closets,
etc, and on the other is the
bedroom of the youngest member
of the family, IN same style as the largest
room. The ceilings are finished 10 oil
colors and the side walls draped with heavy
brocaded plush tapestry in crimson and
old gold. The fireplace in Mrs. Kittson's
room is in Queen Anne style, with the
martel enclosing large bsyeled mirror.
Some of the modern improvements of the
house center in this room, for here are fire
and burglar alarms, bell calls
snd speaking tubes, communicate
ing throughout the house. The
window blinds in this room and through
out the house are Ventian cherry.
In rear of tbs second floor, over the
library, etc, are four rooms for the sons
of the family, all in oak finish, Eastlake
style, the walls hung in tapestry of differ
eat tints and coIoss and the ceilings
bordered with lines, bands of flowers and
tracings of vines, enclosing square panels
at the centers with design of giving i'm
preston to the eye of dome shapes.
The main hall of the mansard or third
story, corresponding in place and size
with the main halls OF the stories below is
wainscotted in OAK and cherry. The halls
of this story are all frescoed in tints and
plain colors, and all the doors are of oak.
At the north corner of the building on this
floor, under the tower and opening from
near the front of the hall, is the smoking
room, finished in oak and cherry and fres-
coed in old gold and autumn leaves.
Above this room in the tower is cedar
lined room for storage, and yet above, the
outlook or observatory, from which almost
all the city and grand stretch of country
and river views may be had. A. rear of
the smoking room is the billiard room,
finished in oak and cherry, with King Lou
is frescoing in gold and electric blue. The
walls, delicately tinted, are finished in
soapstone plaster. On the opposite side
of the main. hall, having north
and east fronts are the dancing halls,
separated by folding doors, with oak fin
lsh, the walls in lavender tint and the oeil-
ings frescoed in Queen Anne style. On
the same floor are bath rooms, etc., and at
the rear the servants chambers, all finish
e6 in oak with the walls tinted in blue and
leather shades. A damb waiter extends
from the rooms intended for the chamber
maids with the laundry in the basement
and Is one of many labor saving conven-
fences which ale part of the house.
The whole building is heated By steam
conveyed underground 3S3 feet from
boilers planted in the basement Of the red
brick building on Selby avenue, which in
cludes the stable and carriage house of the
mansion. This heating system has been
thoroughly tested throughout this winter
and with the ventilation provided for in
plan and construction has kept up q uni
form summer temperature from basement
to attic. In the Selby avenue building is
also large cistern and tank supplied
with well water, with caloric pump, with
which latter water, hot and cold, is dis
tributed through the mansion. The car
rage room. is S0x60 feet, and has a car
rage cleaning room 10x15 feet In the
same building are eight stalls for horses, O
pleasant waiting room and living and
sleeping apartments overhead.
The decorators expect to complies their
labors during the coming month and it is
expected the house will be fully furnished
and occupied by the family during the fol-
lowing month.