Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1884-1886, 1884-08-09
LONG BRANCH HOUSES.
John Hoey's Handsome Cottages and
Summer Residences
Thirteen Extraordinary Buildings
Some Striking Interiors-ROoms
for the Scrvants-The ssPre.
sidentss House."
t-Gath, in Cincinnati Enquirer.

t1Gath, in Cincinnati Enquirer
One Of the most remarkable features ~
Long Branch is the Hoey annex. John liCs =
las splendid house here in the ni;Gs. Of :.
marine garden and woods. The fines in III
al plants, most elaborate beds .: ;-u.;li,;l:
and coiias, interesting statuaiy. lavas
triyes and ponds, make portion of his p..s
he spends most of his time down n: h,s c.. i.
gate in little yellow lodge or bGn-s. ~
which is beautiful to see The entire IN, ROO
is filed with paintings. chiefly of small geiue
kind.
In this little house Hugh Hastings wrote his
!" "Reminiscences of Politics. which are soon
70 he published. Hastings was poor Albany
boy, who joined the Wing party and held
some offices, Late in life he bought The Com
nercial Advertiser When Henry Willard
was rich he desired To own a newspaper III
New York, and he and his friends offered
Hastings 500, 600 for The Advertiser Mr..
Hoey told him not to refuse it. Hastings did
refuse it. About year ago he was thrown
from his carriage at Long Branch and rup-
tured a blood vessel of the heart, which killed
him. His wife received about $3.50, 600 for
the paper, which probably was much nearer
its real value than the sum first offered.
Around Mr.. Hoeys own property he has
built thirteen of the most extraordinary
houses in the United States | went through
soine of these with him and Mr. Hill
ircth have never seen such cottages in the
world. Several cost $4,000 apiece. Mr..
Hoey himself designed them, assisted only by
German carpenter, who has been with him
sixteen years. They are rather in the Queen
Anne style, but are painted IN an extraordi-
green and dark red mixed as YOU have seen
them on old fashioned oil-cloths Each of
these houses has its own gas or gasoline.
Some of them are completely lined with white
ash, all polished as carefully as furniture,
and one that saw today had kind of ro-
tunda extending TO stained glass dome, and
IN every floor are beautiful galleries of
carved ash looking down.
In none of the houses are the servants al
lowed TO have bedrooms above the kitchen
i"or. They are provided with excellent bed
oorns, wei; lighted and ON the same floor
~here they live and laundry and cook Thus
the entire upper portion of the house is pri-
vaie 10 the family. The smallest of these
homes have about seventeen bedrooms each.
They are all furnished by the proprietor
Who rents them by the year. Mr.. George
Loiillnrd's cottage be pays 1909 year for.
The dining rooms and buffers pantries are
delicious to see, being upon the most extern
sive scale. All the ornaments on the cabinets
what -notS, etc, are of the finest style in art
The largest of these houses goes by the
name Of the presidents house, and it has been
supposed that some day it might become the
summer residence of the president of the
United States. 1t is more than 100 feet long.
Nearly all these houses have six servants bed
rooms. They are provided with open-air
iire-places on every floor and in nearly every
room, and are designed to become winter as
well "a summer houses, and perhaps TO have
"a large hotel accessory to them. Standing
lately with Mr.. Hoey, he said: How the
old boys are passing away! Garfield took
nj my house his last dinner before lie was
shot-that Is 10 say, the last dinner in any
considerable company. He is dead, and so
arc Hugh Hastings, William Garrison, and
William Hunt. Blaine was at that dinner,
and made delightful impression upon all
present