Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1883-11-12
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VILLARD'S PALACE.

AHo "AhssAihcon1 fSesluence Being Com
pleted for the President of tho Northern
Pacific Rsilroad-A House Without Its
Equal in the Coustry.
Especial Telegram to the Globe.
New YORK, Nov. 10.-For long time
the jewellers on Murray hill have maryeled
at the reported splendors of the mansion
being erected on Madison avenue by Mr..
Henry Willard, the railroad magnate. Mr..
Wizards new house, or rather houses, &C.
cupies an entire block, having frontage
on Madison avenue of 200 feet. The part
which he will occupy is on the corner of
flfty-t1rst street. Its frontage is sixty
feet, its depth 100 feet. The other wing
will be precisely similar, except that it is
divided into three houses, and between the
TWO Wlngs'' court eighty feet in width
O." ty-three feet in depth.
cortion of the building back
of the court extends back forty
feet beyond the wings and is double
house itself. Entering the spacious por-
tails of the Willard residence your CORES
pondent found himself IN magnificent
reception room fourteen feet by twenty
eight in depth. On either side opened
the drawing rooms. They are each nineteen
by twenty eight feet,and are being finished
in mahogany inlaid with light woods, satin
wood and maple being noticeable. Be
tween the plaster will be hung the rich
embroidered shifts. The drawing rooms
and reception room are SO arranged that
they can be thrown into one spacious
apartment 100 feet in width and twenty
eight in depth. From the reception
room a hall fourteen feet
in width and forty-tWo in length
leads to the music room. Aladdin's lamp
never revealed hall more magnificent.
It is entirely mosaic. The material is
yellow Italian marble. The floor is in
small pieces woven into beautiful designs.
The music room is the chef d'oeuvre Of
the decorators art. It is diminutive
theatre, forty-eight by twenty-four feet III
dimension and thirty-two feet from the
floor to ceiling, extending to the third
story.
Il is in the style Of the Francis I room
of Fontainbleau palace. The colors are
white and gold. 4 wainscoting eight feet
in height in carved pine surrounds the
room. At one end is gallery for the
musicians. The ceiling is an ellptical
vault and every detail shows the skill Of
the artist.
The furniture will beespeciaIIy magnif-
cent. That of the drawing rooms will be
upholstered OF colors harmonizing with
the decorations. the reddish brown are
predominating. It was designed by the
architects who executed the rooms. The
other houses will be finished in style be-
coming their pretentions, although moth
ing like this. The cost of the building
unfinished will be an even million dol
lars. Of this amount the decorating of
the drawing rooms cost $4,000, the din
ing rooms $4,000, the hall $4,000, and
ter room: hence, to finish the interior
of Mr.. Wizards house necessitates
tbs expenditure of $250,0O0.
The upper floors are now about completed
and the furniture is arriving. Mr.. Vii
lard's family will occupy them in two or
three weeks. The remainder of the house
will be finished by midwinter. Mr.. Viii
lard has disposed of the two houses in the
main part of the building to Messrs.
Holmes and Adams, the wealthy railroad
lawyers, who will occupy them. The struo-
ture, when completed, will be the most
magnificent residence building in the
country, far surprising the Vanderbilt
houses. It is the first attempt made to
reproduce an Italian palace in America,
and the architects are deservingly proud of
their success. Henry Wizards house may
well be said to be palat1al. It is palace
in fact