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THE H. C. FRICK MANSION 
Most Pretentious Estate on the 
North Shore, Now Nearing 
Completion -- Estimated Cost 
in the Vicinity of $1,000,000 
The (Henry "C., Frick ‘estate \ at 
Pride’s Crossing, work on which was 
started almost two years ago, is now 
nearing the completing stages. The 
mansion itself, the stable, the auto- 
mobile house, the laundry and the 
gardener’s lodge are all practically 
completed as far as construction is 
concerned, as will be seen from recent 
pictures taken, reproductions of which 
are on the front page of this issue. 
It is said that the place will cost 
Mr. Frick in the vicinity of $1,000,000, 
to say nothing of the interior furnish- 
ings of the mansion, where there may 
be represented before it is finished, 
well on toward another million in val- 
uable paintings, etc. 
Though, perhaps, not the largest, 
Mr. Frick’s estate will be the most 
expensive on the North Shore. Some 
idea of the expense to which Mr. 
Frick is going, in making himself a 
summer home, may be gained when it 
is realized that a fence is being built 
along the roadway fronting the estate, 
at a cost of over $100,000. 
The work was commenced early in 
November, 1904. The construction 
of the house, stable, gardener’s lodge, 
automobile garage and servants’ quar- 
ters, together with the extensive 
grading of the surrounding grounds, 
has progressed simultaneously since 
then. Excellent weather for out-door 
work has given the contractors an op- 
portunity to hasten the work the pres- 
ent winter, and it is now anticipated 
the property will be ready for occu- 
pancy by June. | 
Though the general contract for the 
J. P. LATIONS, 
CARRIAGE BUILDER. 
STORAGE FOR CARRIAGES. 
CARRIAGE PAINTING. 
First-Class Work. SHop, DEPOT SQUARE, 
MANCHESTER-BY-THE-SBA. 
F. J. McADAMS, 
Wholesale Dealer ir 
Iron, Metals and Paper Stock, 
New and Second-Hand Stoves, 
46, 48 and 50 WATER ST., BEVERLY, MASS. 
Telephone Connection. 
SAMUEL A. GENTLEE, 
Funeral Director and Embalmer. 
Calls answered day or night, 
277 Cabot Street. 
Residence, 16 Butman Street. BEVERLY. 
NORTH SHORE BREEZE 
work was let to a Nahant concern a 
great many of the hundreds employed 
were from Manchester, Beverly 
Farms and Beverly. 
D. Linehan & Son have the sub- 
contact for all grading, foundations, 
all stone work, except free-stone work 
and trimmings. They also have the 
contract for setting out about 50 
maple trees. Their work is probably 
the most extensive of any of the sub- 
contractors. The magnitude of the 
grading can better be realized when it 
is known that 48,000 square yards of 
filling was brought in from West Pea- 
body, a spur track having been built at 
Pride’s to accommodate the special 
cars which came twice and three times 
a day for over two months. Over 
1650 cars in all were brought. 
The Frick property was formerly 
the old Tyson estate, comprizing 
about 23 acres of well wooded land, 
witha frontage of about 1000 feet on 
both sides of Hale street. 
Two broad avenues leading to the 
mansion encircle a wide expanse of 
filled in land that will eventually be 
grassed over. One of these branches 
off into a roadway leading to the ser- 
vants’ quarters and laundry. Half 
way up to the mansion on one of the 
avenues is the auto garage, which will 
cost in the vicinity of $50,000 when 
completed. 
Further up the hill, overlooking the 
sea, but scarcely discernable from the 
roadway, is the house. It is reached 
through a magnificent forecourt en- 
circled with limestone columns, and 
the entrance has six immense colonial 
columns of limestone trimmings and 
fancy brick work. All of the main 
living rooms of the house will be fin- 
ished in hand carved mahogany, ex- 
pensive marbles and teak wood. 
A wide corridor extends through 
the basement, many of the rooms of 
which are finished in glossy, white Tif- 
fany tiling, two and a half inches in 
thickness and absolutely fireproof. 
Most of the wood finishing is of brown 
ash. 
On either side of this corridor or 
hallway are the various rooms. These 
include the large kitchen equipped 
with cooking accommodations that 
would be ample for a hotel; dumb 
waiters operated by electricity, a ser- 
vants’ electric elevator running to the 
fourth floor and lined with Tiffany til- 
ing ; a model serving pantry with wide 
marble slabs for culinary purposes, 
rubber tiled floors, etc., a refrigerator 
room, butcher’s room, servants’ dining 
room ; a securely walled-in wine vault 
connecting with an unpacking room ; 
three spacious store rooms, a large 
boiler room tiled throughout and con- 
taining two large steam heaters fur- 
nishing systems of direct and indirect 
heating for the entire house; a bel- 
lows room connected with an organ 
on the floor above; waiting and toilet 
rooms. 
Here also may be found a spacious 
pool and billiard room with magnifi- 
cent open fireplace and marble mantel 
and toilet rooms leading from it, all 
finished with oak dado and paneling. 
At the extreme south end of the 
house is a swimming tank room decid- 
edly Grecian in style, with artificial 
limestone, fluted columns, marble da- 
do, moulded pilasters and architraves 
and two sets of dressing and toilet 
rooms. Hot and cold shower baths 
are provided for and the swimming 
tank, to contain about seven feet of 
water, has an odd shaped bay, around 
which are to be arranged cushioned 
seats. Mr. Frick contemplates install- 
ing a system of pipes by which either 
salt water from the nearby cove or 
fresh water may be turned into the 
swimming tank, either of which can 
be given any desired temperature, by 
a system of condenser form of heating. 
On the ground floor of the mansion, 
commencing at the south end, are the 
living rooms of the family, leading 
from a wide and elaborately furnished 
hallway. There is a glass enclosure 
not unlike an outside piazza glassed in, 
a “den” with open fireplace ; a large 
sitting room and library finished in 
English oak; a loggia enclosed with 
glass sides similar to a sun parlor; a 
large drawing room finished in ma- 
hogany and marble; coat rooms, toil- 
ets, serving pantry, housekeeper’s 
apartments, butler’s pantry, fire proof 
silver vault, steel lined and secured by 
a heavily bolted door, and the family 
dining room and a separate breakfast 
room. 
The dining room has mahogany pi- 
lasters and columns and cornices with 
hand-carved mahogany modillions and 
decorations and teak wood floor in de- 
sign. Thereis alsoa magnificent fire- 
place. The breakfast room is finished 
in caenstone and is glass enclosed 
towards the terrace. The butler’s 
room and serving pantry are finished 
in mahogany, and a ladies’ reception 
room near the main entrance is artis- 
tically paneled. 
Glazed bronze doors giving a 25-foot 
opening into the main hall open 
through to the approach to the ter- 
races. Tothe right of the main hall in 
the staircase hall is to be located a 
magnificent organ costing about 
$42,000, which may be played from 
three separate consols. This is also 
connected with an echo organ on the 
third floor. 
On the third floor are located Mr. 
Frick’s chamber, those of his wife, 
seventeen-year-old daughter, and son, 
Childe Frick, who last year graduated 
