New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1909-08-28
NARQUAND HOUSE SOLD
,f,s g.. It. Bliss Said to Hare Paid
5000. 900 for Property.

,.s sandstone and brick dwelling house at
,-tbwest corner of 6Sth street and Madison
Wv which was built from plans by Richard
:, amt for the late Henry @. MarQuand. the
- who was at one time president Of the
'--sr9nolitan Museum of Art. was sold yesterday
- tbe Msrquand estate by Douglas Robinson.
80 Brown & Co. for about S6o0.OOo Ac-
s,ug 10 a report the buyer is Mrs George T.
- who owns ana occupies the house No. 3
-, sSfb street adjoining. 1t also said that
Z. p,irchased the property 10 protect the resi-
..,tial character OF the neghborhood from being
's.need by builders who have been seeking 10 re-
s,.ce some of the dwelling houses in the section
- apartment houses.
-be architecture OF the MRrauand house is an
.ssrtation Of the late French Renaissance What
.-ticularly calls the attention of passersby to
=. structure is a conservatory suggesting the
,,utiuuation of one Of the drawing rooms the
rsn floor into loggia glazed with stained glass
The house occupies plot fronting 10 feet 6Sth
,-set and as on Madison avenue. The westerly
rne u the premises is los feet.
Mr. Marquand was collector and eonnoisseur
=, Art treasures. He enriched the Metropolitan
Museum Of Art with tine collection OF old mas
ans His home is hllod with pictures, sculptures.
,srcelains and stained glass.
ne house contains many remarkable features.
Tie entrance hall is set with small tiles of Span
81 make from one OF Philip IFS palaces, the gem
s-al trim being OF ebonized hardwood. To the
eastward Of the grand hail. which is in the middle
q the building. is the chief drawing room. called
ne Greek room. In il is q big fireplace Of brown
sna light marbles. OF the drawing room and con-
ssFysf0ry is little apartment which the late Nj.
NaTquand styled the Saraoenic room Old Spanish
tiles OF great value set in the ceiling max
Mg centres for other spanish tile designs
Near the Saracenic room is a large apartment,
the interior decorations Of which are all removable.
That apartment is the AnglO-Japanese room. The
.afsrioT decorations cost more than Sl50o0a Both
The floor and ceiling of quebracho wood. Planes
used on ordinary wood, IL is said. refuse 10 cut
cusbracho, so that the carvsrs were forced 10 en-
poy tools such are used on metals on the
ceiling are a multitude OF carvings. including the
figures OF the zodiso-Leo Capricorn Gemini, Aqua
nus Pisces. etc.
On one Of the windows lighting up the grand
tar leading from the great hall 20 the second
foor is figure Of Michael Angelo, designed BY
Luc-oivier Merson, of Paris. and put IN colors by
Z S oudinot On another window is a figure Of
Leonardo da Vinci. There are many beautifully
decorated bedrooms on the second and third floors.
On the fourth floor are nine bedrooms for ser
wants and a large room lined with fragrant cedar
f0r furs and clothes
Among the artists Who have helped to decorate
the interior are Manly y. Cutter John La Fargo,
Francis Lathrop. Louis G Tiffany and Frederick
croEninshied; the French artists Luc-Olivier Ner-
son and z c oudinot and the Spanisrd BeRlliure.
The Msrouand house was offered at auction on
April q, 1905 by Bryan l. Kennedy at the Real
Es,ste Exchange sslesrooms. II was bid in by
representatives. Of the estate for s5o0eA