The Lambertville record. [volume] (Lambertville, N.J.) 1872-1968, 1885-12-23
Mrs. LoeAN,s HOUSE.
Treasures and Relics, the Collection o:
Many Years In Washington.

Senator Logan's wife has had proper
appreciation of the opportunity she has had
to accumulate old-fashioned furniture dur.
ing her long stay in Washington, and now
that for the first time she has home of her
own IN this city she has turned this collec.
ton to good account. Senator and Mrs.
Logan say they intend to make their pres-
ent residence on the Heights, just beyond
the city boundary, into which they moved
the last Of August, their permanent home,
and as they rented their house in Chicago
furnished they brought nothing but their
library to the dwelling here. The house is
large double one and was for number of
years, prior to the sale Of the property by
he widow of its former owner, Mrs Stone,
about four years ago, the homestead Of the
Stone family and stood in the midst of n
spacious grove. Though streets have now
been cut through the grounds, Senator To-
gan bought enough laAd with the house 10
keep good-sized lawn and many old trees
back and front of the house. Mrs. Logan
greatly enjoys her home and especially her
outdoor life and goes about the grounds
tending flowers, or petting her COW and
dogs, wearing nm old-fashioned sun-bonnet
with daisy white frill about the face and
blue ribbons, in which her picturesque face
looks more winsome than ever.
II is evident ut glance that very little
money has been spent for furniture OF deco
ratons, yet there is not more attractive
looking interior to be found among all the
costly dwellings in Washington than Sena-
tor Logan's home now presents. There
never was a greater triumph of good Taste
where there was little money to expend for
luxuries than is evinced in the fitting up of
this house, for Mrs. Logan is decidedly
mistress of the situation and shows by the
arrangement of all the furniture and crna-
ments that she knows Just how to make the
most of everything and bring out the best
points of the old mansion, which is one of
.he Oldest in this section as we'll as to show
what she could afford to put into it to the
best advantage. With house Of that kind
i required great art to keep the furniture
from making the rooms look shabby and yet
not to have furniture which looked old, ex-
cept in its style of making and the kind OF
materials used. The rooms are of enormous
size and to carpet them alone would have
cost great deal. Instead of carpeting it
she had the parlor floor painted and var
nished to look like stripes of hard wood and
placei rugs and the skins of animals on it.
The parlor runs the whole depth of the
house. Few modern houses have rooms
approaching it in size. On the staircase
eading from the landing to tho second
story Mrs. Logan has put real old-fash-
oned rag carpet, and very pretty one II
is. She has for several years been receiv-
ing gifts of blankets, etc., manufactured by
the Navajos and other Indians and has the
blankets hung up as portieres. When not
long enough for the doorways she has made
deep macramo gimp and fringe for them
herself and has run through its meshes rib.
bons of the colors most conspicuous in the
blankets.
Let in the outer wall u the landing OF
the principal staircase are transparencies OF
scenes among the picturesque ruins of the
ancient cliff dwellers in the Territories
These look very effective indeed seen from
the main entrance below and are far more
novel than stained glass. On one of hor
parlor mantels there is lambrequin, made
Of what appears ut first to DO white paper,
but on inspection is found to be much
stronger while equally thin. II is made Of
the bark of mulberry tree in South Ameri-
ca, which is hammered very thin by lhe M
lives and gummed together with arrowroot.
Thus every gift she has received has been
utilized.
The main hall is very wide and runs
straight through the house, and on its walls
are Indian arrow heads and other Indian
weapons which have been given Senator
Logan, mounted by his son in a very taste
full style on boards which he covered him.
self with blue cloth, which makes most
effective background. The long sofa in the
hall was once owned and used by Mr..
Slidell, who was Of Mason and Slidell
notorlety at the beginning of the war. An
antique clock is also in the hall.