The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1890-12-07
HOMES OF STATESMEN.
4key Grow More Costly and Lux
& urious Every Year.
ms. ZACH cHANDLER's MANSION
80 Houses for Sale-senator Stanford's
sable Better Furnished Than Most
Of the Dwellings In Asnerica.

now OpeH tUI Vic WttitSis Aiu kicat pTep6-
lions are being made for the social season.
mich begins with January l. The NUM-
- Of reople owning their own houses
s1.sdilv increases and the homes of our
.5nlesn,en grow more magnificent and more
iururious from year to year. was told
s1terday by one of the Washington archi-
sscss that there are a dozen bath
,ooms In this city which have cost
II the way from $1,000 to SIC, 900
sniece. and one senator's home has
r;ne bathrooms, all of which are finished
= mahogany. The finest house in WASH
hrton today is that which is being built
y Mrs, Zach Chandler. Ii 10 on the cor
~ Of sixteenth and X streets. and 1t must
eoossin about thirty rooms. 1t is great
snare structure of Milwaukee brick,
4limmed with a drab sandstone, and its
architecture partakes of the GIecian orders
Uare Mrs. Senator Hale and her husband
viii live, ard many fine entertainments
Nh be given. This ground cost Mrs.
Chandler IS square foot. and 1t was
nfbred TO the Ohio millionaire,
Warder, when he was looking
~ . place to build. The price
"a, however, 5000 more than that of .
ID IN the center of the same square, and
j . penny wise pound foolish way he
Knight the cheaper lot. He built house
Sos ting about soc. GOO, which does not look
! = Il it cost more than $4,000, and which,
! oxing TO its location, will never bring what
Ih worth. Mrs. Chandler's lot is one of
q lhs finest in the city, and it will increase
- value right along.
In sight Of this house of Mrs. Chambers
= here are half dozen and more mansions,
I none OF whick cost less than 500 900 to
I build, and some of the most noted men
4 and women of the country will be her
4 neighbors. Just across the street lives
4 Senator Evarts In big red brick, and
| block away is the great mansion Of Colonel
4 John Hay. who with his accomplished
\ vile, kmasa Stones daughter, spends
mail fortune every year in his Washing,
L ton entertainments. The Hay house is
one Of the finest here. 1t has q dining
\ room finished in South American ma
hogany, and the great library has ceiling
4 Of panelled oak, the grain of which has
been busted with gold. A few doors from
\ Colonel Hay, and between him and Mrs.
Chandler, is the palace of Justice Gray,
which is so severely plain that it looks like
\ prison. Here the fat, round justice en-
I tertains hts select crowd of friends In COM
pany with his wife, who was. it will be
nmembered. the daughter of Stanley
Matthew's, and who is very popular in
Washington society. A little further
down < street is the house of Colonel
Jerome Boneparte, and on another corner
q = btx xnd kvs<, vr@kf ,f. al Nt,Ir
derson, OF Cincinnati, built tor himself q
lew years ago at the cost Of about $4,000.
block further over is the white stone
house in which Mrs. Senator Stanford
viii give her magnificent enter
ailments this winter. 1t is
NE house which she and the
senator have occupied since they have
lived in Washington and which am told
hey rent, though the senator is the richest
man in congress. The only building that
Stanford owns here is his stable, which,
J ~ the way. cost him about $4,000, and
which Is the most comfortable of the
ssables at the capital. The Stamford home
y elegantly furnished. Mrs. stanford has
picked up the most magnificent embroid-
cries that the world can furnish, and she
has these scattered here and there in all
sorts of shapes and in all sorts of places
throughout the house. Her house is not
saudy, though it is rich, and it is most
comfortable home as well as a magnificent
place for entertaining.
Senator Stanford has done wisely in not
buying house in Washington. The man.
sions OF millionaires do not sell very well
here, and there are several now in the
market. Senator Palmer's big brownstone
house. which faces Mcpherson square, can
Be bought for $4,000. 1t cost him $S5 900
70 build it, and the ground is easily worth
fhe difference. Still it has been for sale for
more than year. and he is losing at least
$500 month in the interest on the money
lied up in the investment right along.
Ex-Secretary of the Navy Robeson's house
pm the Corner of Sixteenth and o streets is
sun Tor sale, and the price is, | think,
tco,Vn 1t is covered with mort
cages foot deep. and though the
aand Is increasing in value. the house will
not bring what it cost. The Chinese lega-
tion still occupy Senator Stewards castle
ION Dupont's circle. They pay good rent,
but Stewart will be glad to sell for 500. 600.
~'NNhS tAN EANBCAtt NJ thoss hhe hhSAN
are no takers. The residence of the late
Sseneral Bob Schenck is for sale. and there
NE homes OF all sorts to be bought here
or con sideraton. Houses from 5000
% 900 sell readily. and $4,000 and Sl5,-
Vo houses are sold every day. 1t Is only
the big houses that remain on the market,
and every month or so there is real estate
Iansfer here which runs high up into the
tens of thousands.
understand. by the way. that Admiral
Porter is offering his house for sale. 1t is
big piece of property in the most fash
unable part of the city. and it has been his
home for a long time. Ii is one of the old
houses of Washington, and like many Of
ne others of our statesmen's homes, il:
occupants have made it historic. Blaine
or instance, lives in house which has en-.
ertained statesmen for two generations.
"a it Admiral Rogers lived; Secretary
evard occupied 1t when he was AT the
head OF the state department. and Clay,
calhoun and Webster have NIL taken din
aer inside its walls. 1t is big house within
stones throw of the White House, and il
Viii eventually be very valuable as business
property. Blaine rented, am told, with
ne option OF buying il anytime within 3
pertain period at $40 square foot, and
his would be very cheap for the ground il
mere was nothing on it, Just next door to
,aine Is the Old mansion now owned by
ION cameron. and which cost him $6I 200.
was the old Taylor mansion, and is an
English basement house with three stories
mo an attic. Mrs. Cameron has her parlors
the second floor. and the senator uses
hrst floor as his offices. Just across
tAiayet'e square in the old mansion which
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