The Helena independent. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1875-1943, 1890-09-28
A HANDSOME DWELLING.
mr.. w. E. Co.'s new Mansion at Hem.
lock Street and Harrison Avenue.

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! lock Street and Harrison Avenue.
Mr.. w. H. Orr, the builder, has lust oou.
Dleted for Mr.. w. e. Cox, a handsome
dwelling on the southeast corner Of Hem
iock street and Harrison avenue, which. for
a pleasing exterior and richly finished
INTERIOR is one OF the prettiest in the
city of Helena. The house covers SPACE
OF forty by sixty feet. and is two stories and
| an attic in height, with large basement.
The first story is of Montana granite, and
the upper ones of wood. The well broken
| lines of the building make a very favorable
impression. On the northeast corner ia a
tower, and on the southwest side is another.
running the height of the building. A
smaller tower on the north relieves the eve
in that quarter. On the north and east
| side of the lower floor extends a commo-
porch the visitor finds himself in tiled
vestibule six and one-half by Eve feet.
alongside this vestibule Is an alcove seven
and one half by five feet, into which soft
mellow light comes through large stained
glass w in s:nr+ The reception hall is tbi1
and on its left is the parlor.
This room is sixteen and three-quarters bv
sixteen feet, with bay window in the corner.
Back of the parlor is a large well-lighted
sitting room, eighteen by eighteen feet, and
teen and half by eighteen feet Through
the buffers pantry, four by eight feet, the
kitchen is reached. This is fourteen by
fourteen and a half feet, and has an adjunct
in the shape of a summer kitchen, which
eight. The whole of the lower floor is I'm
ished in oak with the exception of the par
lor, in which the hardwood is of cherry.
The floor of the hall is also of oak. The
thing, around the handsome fireplace
in i'm the n,u parl sa, is $50. Of pure Me1i-
piece is fine plate e glass mirror MAMIE The
woodwork around the fireplace offers q fine
opportunity for display of bric-a-brac. The
parlor is fitted up with a twelve-light chan
delier. The sltting-room may be best de-
scribed as poem on comfort. From it
in one way, but through the dining
as the large sliding doors between these
rooms and the reception hall make the
whole of this part of the lower floor appear
as one great apartment. A cheerful look
pearance of the sitting room. It is tiled
and surmounted by fine mirror. In the
dining room is large sideboard built into |
the wall. The kitchen is supplied with |
large soapstone sinks. All the hardware on |
silver, and all the glass work is beveled |
plate. The frescoing of the walls and |
ceilings is a pretty piece of work, executed |
by Keyler, of Minneapolis.
Ascending the oak stairway, with it's
arches and its oak floor, up through the
circular bay, one lands on the second floor
in a hall seven-and-a-h by twenty four
feet, on the left of which is
chamber fifteen by twelve-and-a- ha.f
T hia is the closet main three Ssdroa ~ t snd
opening into it by large sliding door is
another chamber, thirteen and half by
eighteen and three-quarter feet, with
closet three by six and half feet. This
chamber can be used either as q bedroom or
an ANU upper sitting tim room From its bay win
surrounding country in oil directions.
From this chamber runs passageway five
by three feet. which by an ingenious ar
ranRement has been turned into a closet
also. It leads to bed chamber nineteen
and half by seventeen and half feet,
with closet three by eleven. Running
lengthwise of the house is a hall four and a J
half by twenty-four feet. Across this is an
other spare bedroom fifteen by sixteen feet,
with a eommodious closet. At the rear end
of the hall is q servants room eleven by
twelve feet. This is also supplied with a .
closet. At this end of the hall is also the
bathroom, which Is eight be eleven feet,
and back stairway leading down into the
kitchen. No expense has been spared in
fitting up the second floor, 1t is finished in
California redwood, with mirrors over all T
the mantlepieces, and tiled tireplaces. All
The hardware on this floor is of. pure pol
shed bronze. The bath room tub is of
paper and porcelain, the first of the kind to
De put up in this part of the country.
The attic is one large room 36 by 80 feet,
md it is the intention of Mr.. Cox to have
he floor of this room polished for dancing,
,or which it is especially adapted. It will !.
llso make fine billiard room and splen- 8
lid point of observation.
Throughout, the house is heated by hot ,
water. It is supplied with hot and cold !
water and fixtures for both gas and electric
light. Electric bells in all parts of the Z
louse communicate with the servants quar- =
ers. The cost of the house was over $15,- :
90. In addition there is stable'22 by 40 feet,
which cost $1,000.