Morning journal and courier., 1885-12-14
APALATIAL RESIDENCE,

| MT. Garrett's Home In Baltimore
 Costing one Million Dollars, AImos
 Finished.
 Robert Garretts palatial brown-store man
 sion on Mount Vernon place, Baltimore, is
 rapidly approaching completion, but the in 1 side work to be done will require several
 months yet. Decorators from Italy and l France, we'll as New York artists, are em- | ployed. The front of the building is the l widest of all the large establishments in that 1 locality and is constructed of the best brown
 stone. A feature of the front is hand I somely carved portico which extends out
 several feet from the building and narrows 1 the sidewalk. The entrance is on the side of
 this this portico. There is possibility that MT. | Garrett may yet have to tear the portico 1 down, as his next door neighbor, Henry 1 James, another wealthy man, has been trying 1 to compel MT. Garrett, through the courts,
 to remove the portico MT. James says that 1 the port1co obstructs the view eastward from l his parlor windows. The case was tried in ! the Baltimore courts and decided it favor of MT. James, but Mir Garrett will not re1lnye l the portlco. He has gone on finishing his ] residence without the slightest alteration of the plans and has taken the case to the Court ot Appeals. Already his portico has cost hlm small fortune in the way of lawyers lees lie offered MT. James eighty thousand
 AOA tiof for his pet portico scheme, but Mr. James would not sell. Mir. Garrett's new
 house will Sost oyer one million dollars. At
 present complete description of the mag
 nifeent building cannot be giysI7, AS the
 architects are forbidden to furnish it; and
 one but worknen are admitted. On the
 first floor will be the parlors, library, dining
 room and in the the ballroom The
 last named is marvel of beauty, aud will
 be brilliant setting to thu handsome women
 who will gather there t5 receptions and oth-
 social events. In the walls of this spa
 cious hall are numerous inches for statuafy,
 and which will contain some of MT. Gar
 rett's rarest works of art. Italian marble columns support ceiling eiaborately carved and painted. The walls are wainscotted with Italian marble and the floor is of heavy, highly-polished yellow pine Magnificent cathedral glass doors of novel designs open into spacious conservatofy, which, with the exception of being somewhat enlarged, is the same was in the rear of MT. Gar rett's other residence.
 The most striking adorn1nent of all the Apartments are tho materials, most Of which Are made Of FaFe woods curved in the most unique designs. On several of these man. tels expert wood carvers have been engaged | for over year. MT. Garrett selected the designs abroad and great deal of the costly | work was done in Europe. Both gas aid ! electricity will be used in Illuminating tlfe | house. The gas fixtures will be wonders in l the way of rare bronze, brass and crystal | work They are made from designs special | ly prepared for MT. Garrett, and have no du- l plicates. The art gallery is of good size and l will show to good advantage Mir. Garrison's 1 fine collection of paintings and statuary. | Bath pools, with sides of Tennessee ,nsrble | and nickel plated Things are convenint to ] the bed chambers on the upper floors. The | ceiling of the main entrance hallway is pan elled with cherry, and a spiral stairway ex tends up the central part of the mansion and is lighted by a novel skylight of painted glass; During MT. and Mrs. Garrett's visit 1 .o Europe the past summer they purchased much valuable furniture and bric-a-brac for heir new home. All the carpets will be made to order from special patterns The ace curtains that will ornament the windows cost from one to three thousand dollars pair. MT. Garrett's new house will certainly oe the finest in the city. It is on the south tide of Mount Vernon place, near Cathedral 'treet In front is pretty square of ground sresened fo th tmhoae ah Rsys sy ProRza w alters, the noted art collector, whose resi- l Hence is also Mount Vernon place, few doors east of MT. Garrett's The fine old Vernon place ard Gst6edrsi -saE stfee9 3f M2nnt John w Garrett purchased and began al ering and improving some time before his | leath will be occupied by Miss Mary Gar ,ett, his only daughter, and now probably he wealthiest maiden lady in the United States. For two years workmen have been ,ngaged on the building. The improve ,lents have cost several hundred thousand lollars.