Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1885-08-21

manship. The size Of the dining-room
is DC by 80 feet.
A REGAL APARTMENT.
On the right side of the main hall
opposite the dining-room and with
doors avs connecting it also with the
reception-room and ballroom is the
grand drawing-room, finished on the
picturesque style Of Louis XIV. The
trimmings are of Eastwood stained and
enamelled and finished in pdpier-mGche
and gold. The wainscoting is four feet
in height, and the walls above it are
divided into panels, set of by pilasters
and decorated in relief with pdpier-
mdehe, gold, and paintings. With these
rich decorations alone the apartment
would look regally magnificent, but it
is also intended TO drape it, where the
fastidious artists deem proper, with
silk yelyets and priceless tapestries.
The mantel is marvel of art and ex-
pensiveness, being Of carved onyx and
| gold, with mirrors framed in gold and
silver. The size Of the drawing-rOom
is 45 by 80 feet. Two windows look
ing east light the regal apartment.
Passing from the main hall through
large archway, the visitor enters the
staircase ball, on which rises the grand
stairway with massive newell posts.
The staircase hall is twenty-five feet
wide and forty-eight feet long, with a
floor Of marble mosaic. The walls are
wainscoted and painted and the ceiling
is panelled in San Domingo mahogany.
Three large stained-glass windows, six
feet wide and seventeen feet high, fight
the hall, which can also be entered from
the carriage-porch at the rear. This
porch is supported by DOric columns
and has nine stone steps, being a solid
block Of stone twenty feet long.
The ballroom is on the right Of the
grand staircase, and can be entered
from the staircase hall by sliding doors.
The room is fifty by thirty-eight feet,
and is finished in what is known as the
Adams style, with cherry-wood enamel
led in white and gold. The ornamental
ton Of the walls will be in relief DQpier-
mGche. The mantel is Of onyx and
porcelain, and set off by perfect ar
rangement Of tiles and brOnzes. The
floor is of polished hard woods inlaid.
On the left side of the staircase hall,
opposite the ballroom, is a little lobby
opening into the breakfast-room and
buffers pantry, between the breakfast
room and dining-rOom. and connecting
with both. The butler pantry is not a
very large apartment, but it is never
theless important in the matter Of cost
as well as utility. 1t is 25xl2 feet 6
inches, is supplied with a dumb-waitcr
connecting with the kitchen in the
basement, and is finished in English
oak. The floor is OF oak, and the
rows Of cases with glass fronts are OF
the same wood.
The breaklast-rOom, 25x23 feet, is
finished in American oak, and wains-
cOted all round to the height OF eight
feet. 1t is supplied with cupboards
with glass doors. The ceiling is partly
panelled in wood and will be partly
frescoed. The floor is Of polished hard
woods.
To the rear Of the lobby and connect
ing with the brcakiast-room is the SER
wants hall and servants staircase,
which is entered from the rear of the
house. An immense iron safe stands
in front Of the buffers lobby, and is
intended for the safe reception OF plate.
This and coy china closet behind the
bIeakiast-rOOm, tolet-roOm, and a
hat and cloak-room complete the
arrangements of comfort on the
first floor, and having inspected
them the visitor is at liberty to ascend
tie grand staircase to the second floor.
The staircase is 10 feet wide, with
richly-caryed posts. The landing, like
the floor Of the staircase hall, is Of
marble mosaic. From the landing the
stairs turn back on either side and lead
by easy ascent to the hall above, which
is finished in San Domingo mahogany,
and corresponds in size with the stair
case hall beneath. This upper hall is
waiRscOted to a height of four feet,
and is connected by a large arch
way with the art gallery over the
main hall. Atpresent, Of course, there
are no canyases in the art gallery, and
as its chief attractions are to be the
works of art it is designed to contain,
it is one Of the least elaborate sub
divisions of the mansion. 1t is II feet
high, and is finished in San Domingo
mahogany, and lighted by a large
stained-glass window, which also sheds
light through rallied opening in the
floor on the main hall beneath. The
ceiling of the art gallery is to be fres-
coed. The design is in preparation in
Europe, and will be soon ready FOR exc
cution.
COMMODIOUS CHAMBERS.
There are five chambers on the Sec
ond floor thirty feet square, and ar
ranged with them careful consdera-
ton for the personal comfort Of their
fortunate occupants. Zach is supplied
with a dTeSSing-room and bathroom Of
the most luxurious designs. One hand
some chamber on the southeast side is
finished in the style of the French re-
raisSance another, in the southwest
corner, represents the subdued elegance
Of the Flemish renaissance, the finish
ings being Of stained oak, and the
walls being wainscoted all around. 4
chamber on the left Of the art gallery
is a bright contrast to the sombre tones
Of the one just described, being deco
rated in light maple inlaid with gold in
the style Of Marie Antoinette. Opposite
this attractive apartment is the guests
chamber, finished with inlaid woods in
the restful Dutch style. A chamber
in the northeast corner, commanding a
magnificent view, represents in its COM
Portable appointment the early English
style, being trimmed with black birch,
the walls and ceiling plastered prepar-
atory to receiving neutral tints, and the
floor being Of inlaid hard woods.
On the east side Of the building, and
on the second floor also, is a smoking
room on the moresque style, orna-
mented with black cherry and wains-
coted to height of feet. 1t is lighted
by dome Of stained glass. and is %
feet in length by 25 feet wide.
The northwest wing Of the building
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