The Morris County chronicle. [volume] (Morristown, N.J.) 1877-1915, 1909-05-04
BEAUTIFUL
MANSION
Willard v. King Adds Another
to the Many Fine Houses
About Morristown.
IT COST CLOSE TO $4,000

Though considerable work remains
to be done to the exterier of the house
Willard v, King. president of the
Columbia Trust Co., of New York.
has moved into his new $50, 900 man
sion on Kitchell avenue. The interior
is complete but the bad weather has
kept the masons from completing the
covering of the exterior with the
stucco finish. This will be done, how
ever, in week or two.
The house Is unique in that it is
freproof, wood entering into it's con-
struction only for doors and floors in
two rooms and even these are laid
over concrete.
The house is of uwelve-inch brick
walls with an air space Of four inches
between the brick and the interior
four-iuch walls of terra Gotta. The
exterior finish is of stucco except for
the arches which are of exposed Col
baugh brick. On one side of the house
is an elaborate arched porte cochere,
the arches supported by Indiana lime
stone columns. All the partitions
throughout the house are of terra cot
ia and the floors are of concrete treat
ed with oil and painted dark red. ex-
cept for one room on the first floor and
one on the second which have hard
wood floors and the main hall which
has tile floor. The dimensions Of
the house are eighty-six feet by fifty
feet.
The walls are of sand finish, the
walls of the main hall being lined off
to represent stone. in the main hall
is q handsome semi circular marble
stairway up TO the second floor. All
through the house the lintels and sills
are of marble. On the lower floor in
each room are beautiful marble fire.
places, while the bedrooms are
equipped with brick freplaces.
The living room, opening off the
main hall, is twenty-one feet By thir-
ty-two feet and the ceiling is fifteen
| feet high. 1t is several feet below tha
level of the main hall and is reached
by short fight Of marble stairs from
the hall and another flight from the
reception room to the right of the en-
trance. The reception room is four
teen and one-half feet by sixteen and
one-half feet. Beautiful stained glass
windows light the main hall. The
house is equipped with electric lights
and is heated by hot water, the radia-
tors being set in recesses under ths
windows in each room.
The main hall is eighteen feet by
twenty feet and the dining room open
ing off from it is twenty-one feet by
sixteen and one-half feet. A buffers
pantry adjoining the dining room is
seventeen feet by eight feet. In the
rear of the main floor is the kitchen,
sixteen feet by fourteen feet, and the
servants dining room, ten feet by six
| teen feet.
The enclosed porch On the front of
the houS which is reached by way Of
tn" .,g room, is twenty feet by
twenty feet, and an open porch the
same dimensions opens off the dining
room. The roof of the house is of red
tiles and steel beams are used through
out to support the floors.
In the basement is a laundry and
the heating apparatus. On the second
floor are eight bed rooms and three
bath rooms.
Off to the left of the house is a brick
stable with red shingled roof. The
stable measures thirty-tive feet by
fifty feet and contains accommoda-
tions for five horses. The floors are OF
cement and the partitions are OF
brick.
The house and stable will cost in
the neighborhood of $4,000. The
architect was d. M. B. Sturgis, OF
New York. John D. Collins was the
mason; Reeve and Burr, carpenters
Joseph Price and Dempsey & Murphy,
painters; M. Chrystal, Summit, plum
ber; w. W. Dean, electrical work.
Contracts for tile and other minor
work about the house were held by
New York firms.