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Show HOOVES II OCCUPY ! J. i PEHHEY 11 : AT ill, RJORIHA.: Selects Beautiful Sequestered : 1 Home for Pre-inaugural Va- ! cation Belle Isle, Miami, Florida, will be the official pre-inaugural "White House of America." This is the simple but elegant home of J. C. Penney, founder of the J. C. Penney Company and nationally na-tionally known agriculturist and stock ; breeder, which the Hoover family will occupy. It is a three story white limestone house with overhanging eaves of mellowed apricot-colored tiles, over looking beautiful Biscayno bay to the south, southeast and southwest and re moved at a discreet . distance from the " Venetial- Way boulevard. A road winds through Belle Isle park through many varities of tropic trees to the . handsome home. J Adjoining the Penney estate is that , of Joseph H. Adams. These estatps, j together with the Belle Isle park along i the road front, are merged by connect-' connect-' ingjawns, flower beds and continuous walks into a single lovely unit. Each ' one of these homes has its own boat j landing on the bay, with boathousc ; i connecting. i 1 The Penney home, is magnificent in i its simplicity. Aside from several dec-; ' orative ornaments and a rich frieze ', running along the main facade be-i be-i neath the roof tiles, the house imprest- the visitor by the sheer bauty of line and mass, without superflous decora-' decora-' tive details. Near the front entrance , is a shallow, landscaped pool, wheva goldfish and water blossoms will afford a gracious diversion in the roadway i approach. Southwest of the main ' house is the trim white boathouse with . a small cupola, also suggesting luxury ' in its simplicity. Workmen are now ', rebuilding the boat landing and a fishing boat, in addition to the Adams houseboat Amitie, is being conditioned thoroughly for the distinguished visi-J visi-J tor. i To the south of the home, the swim-' swim-' ming pool, lined with small colored mosiacs, sparkles in the sunlight. 1 Farther toward the southern tip, across ', a lawn of graceful coconut palms, is a golf putting green of smooth, close-J close-J clipped rye grass, awaiting the great ', man's pleasure. , Another lawn of grass divides the 1 Penney estate from the Adams, approached ap-proached by a curving wide path 'shaded by fig, eucalyptus, tamarand, ipalm and laurel trees. I Passing through the Adams grounds j a third estate, recently purchased by Mr. Adams, may serve the presides t-. t-. elect and official news writers a3 headquarters. This home includes a arge reception room on the ground : loor connecting with smaller rooms, vhich could be used by his private sec-etary sec-etary and himself. Upstairs are sev- f ;ral apartments which might house ; ,he clerical staff. Behind this house, on the bay. are ' ,he two-story garage and boathouse ' auildings with .commodious apart- j nents which should be acceptable as ;elegraph and news writing offices. Eetween these estates and the boule- j vard of Venetian Way spans the Belle i Isle park, profusely planted with many : tropic variations of shrubs, trees and flowers, under the care of F. J. Rath-ben, Rath-ben, official gardner and caretaker of the Belle Isle estates. Here, too, Mr. 1 Rathben has an interesting collection of pets, as well as plants, including Chico, a young African monkey; a Dutch hare, a Persian cat and a South American cockatoo, which frequently suns his brilliant feathers on the top fronds of the surrounding palms. Where Mr. and Mrs. Hoover and their son, Allen, now traveling with them, will enjoy their home life in Miami has all the attributes of a genuine genu-ine American home, conceived and executed ex-ecuted in dignified and comfortable luxury. On the ground floor of the Penney home are the large dining room, opening on a porch and terrace overlooking the bay, and the spac'ous living room soaring two stories to its ceiling, with an organ loft at one end and a balcony at the other overlookuig the room. The second floor has two large bedroom bed-room suites with a sun porch for each apartment. On the third floor are two large bedrooms with independent baths and another commodious two-room two-room suite, and the lofty ballroom with huge pendant chandelier and panel-beamed panel-beamed ceiling. F.vcn the kitchen on the ground floor, with servants dining room and quarters has an attractive view. Here are the rose gardens, beyond which you see the elevated walls of the swimming pool and glimpses of the bay through the palms. From the windows of any room in the house you can enjoy wide Vistas of sparkling open water, rich, green lawns, shimmering palm fronds and gay tropic flowers, with an occasional occas-ional distant rooftop of mellow tiles showing above the trees to give the warming assurance of neighbors. |