Show OSTON S MYSTERY Famous Gardner House Huse Which Is Entered Boston Evening Evening Transcript Boston Bost n has a mysterious house but unlike the stock edifice of melodramatic i ic ie literature this house hous is not tumbled I down or cracked cracke In fact fat it i is not ex exactly exactly a house but a palace larger handsomer and more finely built buit than I many of the palaces of the old world Mystery M enshrouds e it i All AU that is deli definitely def I ni ely known is that it i is situated situated on alot of land lad on the border brer of the Back land bought th Fens This lot of was bS Mrs John L Gardner some time cf of erecting ago ao with the Intention as there a house As Mrs Mr Gardner Gardner drives drive to this mysterious house almost daily daly and remains there in conference with wih her architect and builders for hours it itIS itis itts IS ts fair to suppose that tbt the house hous be belongs belongs longs to her Another Anoter thing that is ab absolutely absolutely t certain is l that the mystery is of oC Mrs Mr Gardners G own 0 making makin Every bery Everyone Everyone 1 one one ji f r fiur f UT or five fy entrances is 11 guarded by a a man inin ma specially appointed app s s k r and ad the windows of the to 1 lower story stor into ito which a passerby might gaze are securely boarded up 0 0 1 Into the building are being incorporated incorporated incorporated parts of old buildings possibly portions of the Italian palace which Mrs Gardner brought over to this country from Europe Just what these thes are it is impossible to say because as soon as a they tey are put in place they are covered with hoards boards bords The main en entrance entrance trance is a work of art from the old world and the side entrance also was wasa wa a 2 doorway taken from some ancient palace In the rear of the second story stor are now being bing placed two windows with balconies of the Romeo and amI I Juliet ulet order in the Italian Gothic Gothie I j style the tops top being hin g filled fled in with wih rich j tracery On the side site of the building I looking toti toward ard are several decorations also of the Italian Gothic style The larger l part of these im imported imported ported examples of building art ar are to tobe tobe tobe be placed in the inside Many lIany of them are now kept in two large sheds one at atthe atthe atthe the rear reat of the building and another at atthe atthe atthe the side At the doorways of both of these sheds men sit on guard gard and in inquisitive inquisitive strangers are not allowed to 1 look upon the various columns of dif dlf different different ferent kind of marble capitals of the I different carved window orders richly cared I frames frame heavily packed furniture and i iother i iother i other art treasures therein concealed t Even the expert stone workers who ar a nih polishing and putting in shape the mag magnificent ma marble columns for the house suspend operations to warn wa away any who looks look upon their work The windows of all an these sheds are of ground gound glass glas or else are painted ao so s there is no view from these thee The most i absolute ruler of a country countr could not build a fortress with greater geater secrecy t the a The he building itself is divided into two distinct parts part The side toward Hunt Huntington HuntIngton Huntington ington avenue is s occupied wholly by byone byon one on Jar je room perhaps feet long and ant fifty ity to Ye f in width and two stories storie in height The walls of this apartment are aio aronow now finished and ad the roof timbers ure ne e being put on The latter later are hugs timbers of Georgia pine more than a foot fot In thickness and six inches incites wide and nd it i is said Mrs r Gard Gardner Gad Gadner Gardner ner has ha these thea in preference to t iron stringers st because iron iro was not used in inthe inthe Inthe the palaces and nd would be in incompatible inI incompatible compatible co m B ti le ll the Q general generl architectural tural tipal style s of the building The im immense Immen I mense mene men a room ro m they tey cover is probably probably ably to to lie U as a a gallery galer Lot for fo the te j 1 I I many valuable pictures picures which Mr Mrs Gardner possesses and as a a place in m j which she may have private 1 t j jand and other entertainments The rhe main min f part of f the building is to be b four stories st s sin in height beight two more mor than tha the th gallery pie or on music hall han and is being bin built buit around a cloistered court yard the arches ar of which are supported by marble mable pillars In the house hous proper the same se magnificent magnificent cent dimensions have been followed aa a I in the gallery The rooms are ar ef f im immense immens immense mense mens sine sise and great grat height The main maim mn entrance is a sort sr of anteroom or yes ves vestibule ve similar to those thos found in the houses house of Pompeii Popi From this thi vest vesti vest bule there is a wide entrance upon the te arcade surrounding the court cour yard the build building From Prom Huntington avenue te ing lug presents anything but a pleasing pleng prospect All AU there ther is to see se is i one on high brick brick and an long wall wal of red re and aid ad gray gy The material used us in the construction construCtion tion of this magnificent palace or o yes res residence r ton or museum is gray ry pac Brick ik which from a distance gives the effect of i sandstone The inner part of the te malta main walls is of red brick making maing the whole about a a foot fot re in m thickness It I is said sid Mrs Gardner Ganer intends to keep kep up the theair theair air of mystery that surrounds this thi edi edt edifice lice fice until it i is completed complete |