Omaha daily bee., 1883-04-27
TABoR's PALAT1AL RESIDENCE
Description OF His Prospective MIL
ion-Dollar Residence.


Idea CT building q million dollar hotel
at the corner of Sixteenth and Arapa-
hce streets. He no longer has any
doubt that the government building
will DO erected there, and he is con.
tent with that. Instead of investing
his money In q house for the entertain.
ment Of others he will build one for
the entertainment Of himself. As he
has often said he would not live In any
other city than Denver, the conclusion
is natural that he will build his man.
sion here. And so he will. Mrs.
Tabor told o friend the other day that
the famed palaces Of the California bo-
nanzas nor the mansions of the Stew
arts and the Vanderbilts shouldnot be
so fine as the house her husband will
build.
The ex-senator Is not commuulca-
tive on the subject. He doesn't want
to talk about his prospective palace
until his plans shall be fully matured.
At present he has nothing more han
q vague but delightful outline Of what
his residence shall be. It will be
built In the middle of a block of
ground covering thirty.two lots of the
regular size. He has his eye on one
of the finest locations on Capitol Hill,
and II he shall set his heart on rearing
his house there he will have it, what.
ever the cost may be. There Is a good
deal of latent poetry In the California
Gulch millionaire, and though he
may not be able to give his e,theti-
clsm definite form In words, yet he
can discriminate between the finest
shades Of beauty when they r placed
before him. This IL shown In his
opera house. He intends that his
residence shall be to other residences
what bis theatre Ia to other theatres,
The mansion will contain about
thirty rooms, and II will be srran ged
much as the dwellings Of the ancient
princes were-for the entertainment
OF guests and to accommodate the far.
thest extreme of festivity. There
will be banqueting halls long and
wide, each with different furniture
and fittings, which shall be 20 selected
a. TO serve for any event that 10 likely
to occur. There will be n room
which oan be used for receptions at
by more guests than can be &C.
commodated In the reception rooms
for everyday use. 1t will contain
every beauty which genius can suggest
and execute and money pay for In
the center there will be q fountain
whose drops of spray, al they sparkle
In the rays Of light from q hundred
gas jets, will fall upon the rarest exot.
los known to horticulturists. The
floor Will be q grand Mosaic Of
Colorado's most beautiful minerals,
cut and rolished by skillful lapldaries,
and arranged In odd and beautiful
oonceits by one Of New York's most
noted artists. The walls will be COL
ored In beautiful tints, and the soft.
swelling dome will seem to fade away
In the blue distance of the sky which
will be there represented. Here and
there In inches gracefully cut will
stand the form of a Venus, a Psyche
or q Diana chiseled In the most virgin
marble; and these will be relieved by
rare paintings which shall be executed
upon the walls themselves, not hung
there. Each gas jet will have prisms
of glass SO arranged upon 1t that light
of any color can be made to suffuse
the whole room and to give the flow.
Ing fountain waters the colors of q
fair rainbow. At one end of thi.
room the wall wilf be SO ~cleverly con
struoted as to seem real and solid like
those around II; but 1t will be
90 thin that the weakest sound
can escape through 1t. Behind thil
diaphanous partition musicians will,
on state occasions, be concealed, and
disc purse sweet music which shall fall
upon the ear like the wsrbiing OF hid
den blsds. This room will be more
than Oriental in Its sensuous lowell
ness and richness. The sleeping apart
ments will be en- suite, and the fur
nishing - truly elegant as the sugges
tions Of an accomplished designer Cal
make them. There will be every faoll
ity for amusement; q billiard room
with Its constant attendants, Q bowl
Ing alley, and . wide room for lawn
tennis when the weather will not per
nit the game to be played In tn,
level ground prepared for 1t on tn
grounds outside. The stables will b
on the same scale Of elegance that tn
house L., and there will be saddle
horses and driving horses TO suit tn
taste of the most fastidious horsemen
The grounds surrounding the mansiol
will In time become q garden Of beaut,
and, In park, inolosed In one corner
red deer and antelope will raise thei
pretty heads and look with shy curl
osity upon their surroundings. In tn
tower Of the house there will DO al
observatory fitted ur, where one ma,
look miles away upon the plains o
upon the most di.tant mountain pea
or IL he desire, make observation
In astronomy aided by = 6ne collection
OF telescopes and Mathematical instru
ments. There will be electric bells II
all parts of the house, and electri
lights In such rooms as 1t may be dc
sired in, and to illuminateth ground
In the summer evenings at jardlnierre
or when the senator and his wife shal
desire to give o fete champetre.
Architects will at once begin to pre-
pare plans for Mr.. Tabor's approval
and before summer has set In wor
upon this magnificent mansion will b
commenced.