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Show A One On ere Heavens Living Under The Spreading Chestnut Trees.. vails. originally owned by the CathoThe massive living room is lic Church, was known as Pop-pi- ns Place. The Rectory, forStately as sentinels, fourentirely warm and homey due teen chestnut trees grow in merly occupied by Bishop to tasteful selection of furnievenly spaced rows down the Glass, was torn down and the ture, upholstered in a coorsweeping front lawn. To their present home built over the dinated color scheme. Two wing-bac- k chairs beside the left, is a formal sunken garoriginal basemeut. CatacombItalian marble fireplace are in den and beyond its brick enlike areas now serve as storclosure is still another lower age rooms. identical floral fabric whose Beside the arches of the colors pick up each of the garden level. There are fifty trees growing on this acre brick veranda is a wrought shades used in the oil paintof land. iron bell brought from a Me an ing hanging above the pale pink mission. Looking up to- couch. This huge painting, one No, it IsntaSourtheru plantation or a colonial mansion. ward the house through the of the Hearst collection, deIts the W. L. Holst home at even rows of the thirty-year-o- ld picts a young woman just hav78 Laurel, right in the heart chestnut trees, the noise ing finished hooking the rug of our city's Federal Heights of city traffic seems entirely at her feet. It is by John Rice. area. incongrous, and on entering A Chickering piano in buhrl-e- d This Georgian style home of the quiet that only four walnut commands the viswhite-wash- ed brick wasbu'll' foot solid rock walls and high itors attention. This wood is thrity -- five yearsagobyarchi-te- ct ceilings can produce, the atbutterscotch colored, Lloyd Snedeker. The land. mosphere of another era pre chairs, a walnut desk and various appropriate tables complete the furnishings of this comfortably regal room. The living room opens into a den whose walls, bookcabinets and fireshelves, place mantle are birdseye maple. One of the oldest maps of the new world is painted and lacquered onto the creamy richness of this wood wall. The pale green background of this map is echoed in the backs of the bookcases so that attention is focused onto this unique map painted right onto the wall. Another painting from the Hearst collection hangs in the by Pat Kendig d-c- cl ceil-inga- nd , den. The similarity between the painted scene and the front of the Holst home is uncanny. Crossing the entry, one can look to the right out through french doors at the glorious yard or to the left up a most gracefully curved staircase. Over the landing of the entrance hangs a delicate French chandelier obtained from the Wall home cm South Temple. Across the entry hall from the living room, one alters the spacious dining room which can comfortably seat thirty. Focal point of this room ed is a marble topped, hand-paint- credensa in a mirrored recess made especially to show off this treasure. Mrs. Moyle, a former owner of this home, bought the orcarved credensa in nately Venice and the Holst's purchased it from the Moyles. An elegant French eperne (whose fluted vases are cranberry glass) rests in the center of the large dining table. Another of the Hearst collection paintings, an oil reminiscent of Rembrandt, hangs on raie wall. - Out of any window of the ie can view the exhouse, travagantly spacious yard with its beauty. "In autumn it's gold an in winever-changi- ng ter, it's white and crispy," Mrs. Holst said. A pleasant morning is assured anyone dining in the Holst's pink breakfast room with louvred windows opening onto the vista. A glass-topptable with white wrought iron trim has matching chairs. ed French doors offer access to a black wrought iron porch which goes all the way around the outside of the spacious master bedroom. Beside the bed in this room is a master switch 'for the outdoor flood lights and every light in the house. Each bedroom has its own sitting room and bath with two baths and a dressing room attached to the master bedroom. In each of the six bathrooms there is a tap for ice water besides the hot and cold water taps. This was one of the homes in first Salt Lake, and it contains an inner-com- m system through which erne can talk to someone outside, into every room or mi the telephone. A friend has told Mrs. Holst back she has the door in the city. Not only is the back entrance beautiful but standing on the flagstone doorstep beside a w rought iron lantern, one fully expects a best-looki- horse-draw- n trotting ng rarnagetocome up the drne. |