Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1883-11-11

Inc magnificent Residence Being Com
Pieted Tor the President of the Northern
Pacific Railroad-A House Without Its
Equal in the Couatry.
Especial Telegram to the GIebe. I
New YORK, Nov. 1O.-For long time
the jewellers on Murray hill have maryeled
at the reported splendors of the mansion
being erected on Madison avenue bv Mr..
Henry Willard, the railroad magnate. Mr..
flllard's new house, or rather houses. oc-
cupies an entire block, having frontage
on Madison avenue of 200 feet. The mart
which he will occupy is on the corner of
Fifty-frst street. Its frontage is sixty
feet, its depth 100 feet. The other vino
will be precisely similar, except that it is
divided into three houses, and between the
two wings is court eighty feet in width
and seventy-three feet in depth.
That portion of the building back
of the court extends back forty
feet beyond the wings and is a double
house itself. Entering the spacious por-
tails of the Willard residence your CORES
pondent found himself IN a 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, are being finished
in mahogany inlaid with light woods, satin
wood and maple being noticeable. Be
tween the pilaster 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 hall fourteen feet
in width and forty-two in length
leads to the music room. Aladdin's lamp
never revealed hall more magnificent.
1t 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 a diminutive
theatre, forty-eight by twenty -four feet in
dimension and thirty-two feet from the
floor to ceiling, extending to the third
story.
1t is in the style of the Francis I room
Of Fontainbleau palace. The colors are
white ana gold. wainscoting eight feet
| i n height in carved pine surrounds the
| room. At one end is a gallery for the
musicians. The ceiling is an elliptical
vault and every detail shows the skill of
the artist.
The furniture will beespecially magnifi-
cent. That of the drawing rooms will be
upholstered of colors harmonizing with
| the decorations, the reddish brown are
! predom1natlng. 1t WAS designed by the
| architects who executed the rooms. The
| other houses will be finished in a style be-
coming their pretentions, although moth
! ing like this. The cost of the building
unfurnished will be en- 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
the music room $4,000. AS much more
will be expended on other work on the lat
ter room: hence, to finish the interior
of Mr.. Wizards house necessitates
| tbs expenditure of $25O,00O.
! The upper floors are now about completed
| and the furniture is arriving. Mr.. Viii
lards 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 struc-
ture, when completed, will be the most
magnificent residence building in the
country, far surprising the Vanderbilt
houses. 1t 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 palatIal. 1t is palace
in fact.