The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1896-09-13
UNIQUE HOUSE PLANS.
One for an Organist-A Fine Dwell.
ing at Marion.

Mr.. Louis H. Gibson has just completed
plans for house for family at one of
Chicago's noted suburbs. The man of the
family is well known in Chicago business
circles, and also has a soul above trade
One of his hobbies, and perhaps his great
est one, is the pipe organ. He is not only
fond of its music but is a performer on
its manuals and pedals Of more than ordi-
nary ability. He is able to indulge himself
in IuXuries, and of them is the new
house which is about to be built. The lot
is considerably more than one hundred feet
wide, and the house will be on broad and
generous lines. Across the front is a wide
porch, and in the center the double doors
open into a hall fifteen feet wide. At the
left of the door is the library, with deep
window seats and an old-fashioned fire.
place. Towards the back of the house
there are double doors, which open into the
music room. This music room is six feet
lower than the library, and the latter may
serve as a gallery whenever a large COM
pany is entertained. In deep niche at the
extreme rear of the house the organ is set.
1t has frontage of twenty feet, and the
casing will match the wood finishing of the
room. which is quartered oak The motor
which will run the organ will be out of
the room. AT the rear of the central hall
10 liiS StdiiCdSc WHICH leaUS, DTSl DOWN the
six feet to the music room and then in a
second turning to the floor above On the
landing where the stairs turn will be the
echo organ, something like the one at Ply
mouth Church in it's effect an6 one which
will be played by motor power by simple
manipulation on the part of the organst
at the main organ This will make the
music perfectly distinct in the hall. Should
/ there be an audience of three or four hun
dred it may be seated in the music room
proper, the library and the hall The music
room and library will seat It's persons On
the other hand, should there be a desire to
confine the music to the room in which the
organ is. it may be shut off from the others
by sliding doors.
Off the music room and under the stairs
is smoking room. On the right-hand
side of the hall is the parlor and the din
ing room with the buffers pantry, china
room and kitchen and off the kitchen is
the servants dining room. The entire sec
ond story has bedrooms and bath rooms,
and on the third floor there is servants
sitting room, bath room and individual
sleeping apartments for the servants The
whole house is to be built of handsome ma
terial and finished in the latest style of
modern improvements and art. The fancy
for the owner of a house to have arrange
ments for music such as these is rare
Mr.. Gibson has just finished a house
plan for Mr.. Jason Miller. of Marion.
which is to be a very handsome dwelling,
1t is in Francis / style. One Of the notable
rooms will be the dining ROOM which will
have wainscoting seven feet high of red
mahogany, with plate shelf and a mar
row space between the shelf and the cell
ing will be covered with deep olive color,
with "A design in silver. The design of tho
decoration throughout the house has been
made by Mr.. Gibson and is the maple leaf
and bud. Through the entire center of the
house viii run main hall fifteen by forty
eight feet, with the stairs at the back
where there is broad balcony and window
which overlooks the garden. The rooms on
either side complete house which will be
spacious and mark a hospitality even at
the front door.