f four Moorish arches. These arches were
uniformly twenty-five feet in height and twenty-five feet in width: the
openings of the double arch were placed in front with the single
openings at either side. By this arrangement the beauty of the entire
structure was greatly enhanced, while a very appropriate entrance to
Fenwick Hall was the result.

At the rear of the grounds, on a line with the center of the mansion,
were the roomy stables. They were built of rough Seneca sandstone. Like
Swiss cottages, they were made more beautiful by a profusion of richly
colored slates which covered the broad, steep roof and the wide eaves.
Between the mansion and the stables, on the same line, twenty-five feet
distant from the former, was the pretty two story building, of the same
material, devoted to the kitchen, the heating and the lighting plants.
Both buildings were connected with each other and with the main building
by a long colonnade of harmonious proportions; its heavy cornice,
narrow, steep roof, and long double line of slender supporting pillars,
were all of the same red stone. The color effects offered by the lovely
contrast between the velvety green of the broad, smoothly shaven lawns
and the rich reds of the Seneca stone, were simply delightful!
Architecturally considered, the combined effect of the group of
buildings, arcade and colonnade, was as artistic as it was excellent.
Under the arcade, just inside the double arch, a broad flight of stone
steps led up to the heavy oak doors opening into the wide hall on the
main floor. This hall was remarkable for its unusual size; it was thirty
feet wide and of a proportionate height, fifteen feet from floor to
ceiling. In connection with a cross hall twenty feet in width, it served
to divide the entire space on this floor--one hundred and sixty feet by
ninety--into four very large rooms; the two parlors, the library, and
the dining room: each one thirty feet in width by seventy feet in
length, with fifteen foot ceilings.

The grand proportions of these magnificent rooms and stately halls,
excited universal admiration; they impressed the beholder with a
dominant idea of the spacious luxury which marked the interior
appointments of Fenwick Hall. In the center of the main hall, thirty
feet from the front entrance, began the flight of the grand stairway.
The general design of this stairway was boldly unique. It was in harmony
with the scale of magnificence which characterized the ha