Show HOUSE WITHOUT CORNERS Unlit to Accommodate Ghosts in Situ Francisco There is one house in San Francisco the interior of which has no corner This is the Occidental club Occidentl building on Stockton street which recently became the property of Chris Buckley Where there commonly are corners in apartments apart-ments of residences in this house are only gentle well rounded curves The vertical walls fail to clres a right angle to the ceiling The base of the vertical walls melts by a curve into the floor and where foor ordinarily are corners Of a room are other curves Architec turally in this respect the cures interior of the club house is unique When the archi tectural fact first dawned aI frst Q ap prehension of Buckleys followers they folowes soeculated awhile over the proposition and finally gave it up a to why rooms should be built on this plan roms the basement is a large apartment which is supplied with numerous rows of chairs and there as one of the members of the club expressed I is where de boys do de rough work I is large enough for a meeting room Its ceiling is high above the floor I is far enough re moved from the main apartment on the next floor above and shut off with suffi wih cient thickness of floor and tightfitting tghtfttng doors so that the enthusiasm which ac cumulates there on occasions never dis a sembled turbs the above more In tranquil this room politicians originated as the througout Idea the architecturally interior The expressed property was formerly owned by Mrs John M Peck who was a spiritualist and his timed to the promptings of mediums ls meiums There is a staircase which in its pres sent shape is the product of three at tempts to make something satisfactory I was twice pulled down and a third time allowed to stand At the foot nf the staircase a magnificent bird with delicate and finely elaborated plumage carved out of a single block of hard wood stands as a warder to Its beau I ties There are only fifteen rooms in the entire building and yet within a very short period between 6000 ind 57000 were paid to painters for painting 0 repainting in different tints and colors A small fortune in fact went Into these adornments and changes all of which had something of the eerie about them because Mrs Peck supposed that her judgment was either guided or approved by ghostly voices Her imagination was troDlcalclassical and humorous by turns Large sums of money were spent in il luminating glass windows In the smok Ing room there is a series of tropical views highly colored tropla wealth of vegetation and the beauty of sky and foliage of the land beneath the ever blazing sun Her library ap proached by ponderous sliding doors which moved without sound is frosted over with skillful delineations of Califor ala scenery of mountains redwood trees broad rivers and whatever constitutes the boasted glory of the variegated scenery of the Pacific coast Below these scenes symmetrically arranged in order are pictured representations of rows of books on the backs of which appear the names of famous authors of antiquity and of modern times On the second floor there is a Shakespeare mantel and the humorous Falstaff the melancholy features of the royal Dane Rosalind the two Dromios Juliet and Romeo the dashing Mercutio and Ariel there con front the spectator There are doors of solid mahogany ponderous and heavy which move back and forth almost without the application of force Circular cupboards one being especially devised for a silver safe car ry out th general idea of evading right angles and they observe well the lines of beauty wel Jnes I is said that she discarded the ad tho vice of architects and very likely ex pended much more money than was necessary to have accomplished the Cmplshed same results Apart from the Impulse ivhlch actuated the house would attract attention only by the disparity between the interior and exterior For It is not a mansion In outward appearance In i the modern acceptation of the term but the interior betrays lavish expenditure The assurance of those who know that the work wa done several times over makes it seem very probable that airs Peck Pec may have expended as high as 70000 as alleged The one bill for painting is per a hans a sufficient indication of pe the charge which were not low In any in stance she had original Ideas in the line of making the home comfortable Her chief aim however was to make it ole cle gant and massive San Francisco Ex aminer |