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AMERICAN HOMES AND GARDENS 
and gold brocade, with a richly 
gilded cornice and caryatid 
brackets. The woodwork and 
much of the furniture of the draw- 
ing-room is gilt; the lighting is 
supplied from old French gilt 
sconces hung upon the wall and 
from candelabra upon the mantel. 
Between the Gothic Room and 
the drawing-room there is placed 
a small foyer, which is really an- 
other drawing-room. Here the 
walls are paneled with wood and 
slender pilasters support the ceil- 
ing. Several old portraits are 
upon the walls and at the center 
of the room is hung an old French 
chandelier of crystal and ormolu. 
The great stone stairway which 
leads upward from the long 
Gothic library ends in what is the 
most wonderful and beautiful 
part of a very interesting and un- 
usual residence. In the armory 
are arranged the large and price- 
less collections of mediaeval ar- 
mor, battle-flags, banners and trophies of various kinds, which 
were formed during many years by the late Mr. Belmont, 
The smaller of the drawing-rooms 
effect which one 
a group of five 
and which were removed from 
“Belcourt,” the beautiful and very 
picturesque residence of the Bel- 
monts at Newport. To prepare 
fitting surroundings for this great 
array of antique treasures, the 
architects of Mrs. Belmont’s city 
home, Messrs. Hunt & Hunt, 
have built what suggests the ar- 
mory of a mediaeval castle upon 
the banks of the Rhine or the 
Danube, from which a feudal 
lord and his mailed retainers 
might have sallied forth to battle. 
The ceiling of this large and im- 
pressive room is groined and 
vaulted in stone in the manner of 
the great Gothic halls of Ger- 
many and from the “bosses” or 
rosettes of ornament where the 
ribs of the roof converge are hung 
old chandeliers of wrought-iron, 
while candelabra, also of iron, are 
fixed to the walls. At the north 
end of the armory, and heighten- 
ing the ecclesiastical or mediaeval 
is apt to associate with a Gothic interior, is 
pointed windows filled with stained glass, 
The reception-room with its Georgian chimney-place 
