Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1912-06-28

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tastes and his character. If it
is a city house, the passerby,
looking at it from the street, usually
can make a shrewd guess as to the
sort of man who caused it to be built.
The architect constructs the house
around his patrons ideas. Nowhere
else do the homes of multi-millionaires
reflect their owners individualities as
they do in New York. This is espe-
cially the case in the new residence
that John d. Rockefeller, Jr, is hav-
ing built in West Fifty-fourth street.
Every one knows that John D., Jr..
has so much money he could turn
whole city block into garden as a
setting for his mansion, If he wished,
and do it without worrying about the
cost Charles M Schwab did some
thing like that, but his house on River
side drive stands unoccupied from
one years end to another. Schwab
built his palace, it is said, with the
idea of making. splash in society.
Young Mr. Rockefeller and his wife
care as little for society as they do for
have four children, however, the
youngest about two years old, and tEey
wanted bigger house than the one
they have been living in at No. ID
West Fffty-fourth street So they plan
ned the one that is nearing compile
ton. 1t is just opposite, at No. 10
of the same street, and just west of
T~I,, II r. t. y,
doubt the biggest private residence in
New York, and one of the plainest of
the homes Of millionaires. Inside and
out it is severe in it's simplicity, but
there are few mansions in America
that can approach it in comfort,
though more than one along Fifth
avenue and the side streets may sur
pass it in cost. By experts in such
matters it is considered the most per
feet structure for a home that mod
ern ingenuity has devised.
Is Unique in Height.
Other mansions-such as the Van
derbilt house, between Fifty-seventh
and Fifty-eighth street, on Fifth ave-
uncover more ground. but they are
less than half in height. The new
Rockefeller house is 40 feet wide and
100 feet deep. 1t is nine stories, or
about 100 feet in height. Yet it looks
neither like an apartment hotel nor a
fashionable club, although with a lit
tie remodeling it would fit either pur-
pose.
Between the four-story red brick and
brownstone yine-clad mansion of John
D., ST.. and the new house of his son
there Is a sweep of lawn, with flower
beds and trees that is big for that part
Of New York, although it covers not
more than three city lots. To the east
Of the older Rockefeller house are
more grass and trees, strip of about
30 feet in width There is even a
summer house half hidden by trees
and foliage. If man who had seen
John ID. Sr., once and was told to
walk through Fifty-fourth street from
end to end and point out his house. he
could not fail to pick the right one.
Like its owner, it seems to be in Sc
rene enjoyment of green old age.
1t Is the same kind of house that
Mr. Rockefeller would have built had
he made moderate fortune and set.
tied In Titusville or Oil city. Though
the plumbing and heating in it may
not be of this, or even of last years s,
model, no doubt it is satisfactory to
its owner, and he would not have ii
changed for anything. Probably 80 OF
40 years from now young John DIS
house win have taken on the same
time-mellowed appearance, but today
with the last Of the derricks still peep