“ Kildysart ” 
parlor, children’s parlor, office, pantries 
and halls; on the second floor are the 
bedrooms, twelve in number, together with 
dressing-room and baths, all approached 
from a balcony around the Great Hall, and 
most of them provided with exterior reading 
balconies. The third floor contains the 
servants’ sitting-rooms, bedrooms and baths, 
reached by a special stairway from the 
basement. In the basement are the main 
kitchen, pantries, store-rooms, servants’ din¬ 
ing-room, etc., and the heater, store and wine 
cellars. 
The veranda about two sides of the main 
house is 20 feet wide with a stone pavement. 
In the tower, which serves the two-fold 
purpose of water-tower and observatory, 
there are bedrooms, a completely equipped 
gymnasium and a large and airy play-room 
for the children. The tower forms the porte- 
cochere where the main drive passes through it. 
In the annex on the ground floor is the 
billiard-room, lounging-room, private din¬ 
ing-room and auxiliary kitchen with pantries, 
besides a wide private veranda. On the 
second floor is the owner’s private bedroom 
suite with parlors, library, baths, balconies, 
sun-parlors and maids’-rooms, while above on 
the third floor are more bedrooms and baths; 
the laundry is in the basement. In all there 
are about fifty rooms and ten bath rooms in 
the house. 
The principal rooms are finished in hard¬ 
wood with elaborate carvings, wainscots, 
cornices and ornamental plaster ceilings. 
There are open fireplaces in all important 
rooms with mantels of stone, marble, brick 
and wood. The bath rooms are all finished 
in marble and tile. The bedrooms are 
decorated in bright colors in several styles 
with some especially elaborate Empire de¬ 
signs. The principal first storey rooms are 
in the late English styles or are of pure classic 
design; the walls are frescoed or in solid 
colors with tapestry hangings. Special fur¬ 
niture is provided in many of the important 
rooms and a feature of the house are the 
many nooks and window-seats. 
The electric work is elaborate, and new 
lighting features and color schemes have been 
freely introduced. A complete system of 
fire apparatus and hose lines has also been 
placed in the house. 
The stable is situated at one corner of the 
grounds, heavily screened from the house by 
plants; it is about 100 feet by 125 feet “U” 
shaped, with the stable yard and shed at 
centre and the coachman’s house in one 
wing; it is of the same material and style of 
architecture as the house. Ten stalls are 
provided, large carriage-rooms, harness- 
rooms, wash-rooms, tool-rooms, automobile- 
room and owner’s office with bedrooms for 
the men and special dining-room and kitchen; 
the hay loft is extensive. 
The distinct features of the design are: the 
tower of the house; the Great Hall in the 
main house with its sculpture; the sunken 
gardens, and the lighting schemes. In all 
ways the house is larger and more complete 
than has heretofore been found along the 
Jersey shore. Men of means have here an 
example of what can be done along the sandy 
coast which has been considered barren of 
possibilities for the perfect development of 
extensive landscape work. 
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