Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1893-08-31
A PALACE IN THE ADIRONDACK

DR.. Webb Erecting at coat of 81 BOO
900 the Finest summer HeIdcnos in
America.
Although DR.. Webb has expended hun
dreds OF thousands of dollars 10 fitting up
his beautiful summer property, Shelburne
Farms, into what most people would con
slider a palatial home, it is only a question
OF few years when he will leave his YER
mont mansion for the most magnificent
summer residence in tho country, to be built
in Ne Hat Sane Park in the great Adron .
daoh Wilderness
DIR. Weob built the new railroad through
the Adrondacks, as FREE PRESS readers
know, and acquired a beautiful estate in
that region. For a long time he has been
ambitious to possess the finest private resi-
dence in America, and, from the plans
which his architect has just completed, it is
to be supposed that his ambition will soon
be gratinod. All this is particularly inter
esting because DR.. Webb is still q young
man and started in life practically penni-
less.
The cost of the structure which he pro
poses to erect, according to the New York
Press, will be at least 81, 300 coo. 1t will
he tue grandest affair OF the kind in the
country. DR.. Webb has travelled extern o.
siyely abroad and studied the architecture
OK the various countries he visited. He has
inspected castles and palaces of England
France, Germany, Spain, Italy and other
nations. This palatial castle will cover
very nearly half an acre of ground and
will be built of granite. There will to
numerous turrets, and the fertilization style
of architecture will be carried out in the
| upper part OF the mammoth structure.
Tapestries and silks, mossics and woods
|
of expense In this mammoth country home.
1t sill be filed with curios and brio. a-brac
from many countries, and the picture gal
lerv will be enriched by many old MASTER.
This house will have 101 rooms. The en-
trance to the maiu hall to the Webb parlor
will DO through "a covered loggia. This main
hall will be Jjx100 feet. In the rear of
this large hall will be the living room, 36xS0
| feet. To the lett of the hall and tho living
| room will DO a drawing room OOx50 feet,
| the library, 5Ox5O feet, game room, billiard
room, 20x2S feet, an office 2Sx34 feet, a
large bowling alley and a swimming bath
! 2Sx10 feet. As DR.. Webb is an enthusias
tic hunter he will have large gun room in
his residence. 1Sx20 feet. To the right of
the main hall will be another drawing room
! 50x5O feet large conservatory, a break
| fast room 20x2a feet and a morning room
oUXOO 1eGl
1t will take three years to complete DR..
| Webb's new home. He intends to enter
tain on royal scale when the new residence
is completed. w. Seward Webb is a rela-
tive by marriage OF the Wander bits, a di-
rector Of the New York Central and many
other railroads, aud president and principal
stockholder in the Wegnar Palace Car com
pany.
The mansion Of Cornelius Vanderbilt, DR..
Nebb's brother-in-law, now nearing com
pletion, on Fifth avenue, New York, will
cost into the millions. A single coiling in
Mr. Nsnderblts new palace, painted by a
French artists cost $50 600.
Mr.. Vanderbilt is also erecting a paletal
summer home at Newport, K. l. This resi-
dence, called The Breakers, will be one of
the finest at the Queen City of Palaces by
tho sea.