Rooms & Architectural Details

The exterior entrance oriel is finished in Indiana Limestone with the mansion constructed of Harvard brick and stone window surrounds and elaborate carvings, coin accents and parapet panels. Rich pergolas extend from both ends of the mansion with spaced cedar beams on brick piers for trailing branches. The pergolas bend at 90 degree angles toward the east and terminate in large gazebos of brick and stone that have openings on 4 sides and magnificent vistas of the Ramapo Mountains.

The interior wood paneling of the mansion includes a rich variety of woods including American quartered white oak, English oak, cherry, Circassian walnut, English walnut and California redwoods. The master bedroom suite includes matched burl walnut panels and carved decorations.

The largest room of the mansion is the Great Hall which enjoys a three-sided arcade open to the first and second floors. The significance of this room – the center of life in the manor – originates in medieval architecture, notably in Tudor and Jacobean English country manors. The east wall has large triple windows, nearly floor to ceiling, that overlook the east terraces with stone sections of Enville stone. Between these windows is an elaborate two story high inglenook and mantel – a recessed fireplace and sitting area – with an overmantel made of Caen stone inlaid with colored marble. The woodwork in the Great Hall is of American quartered oak and is carved in Elizabethan designs. An original Aeolean player organ – one of the few remaining and possibly the last in existence in this country – is situated in this room with an elaborately carved display of organ chimes. Two main chandeliers of the room are believed to be by Tiffany. Grand plank flooring of the Great Hall is of oak heartwood. The Great Hall ceiling is richly detailed with carved wood beans and plaster panels.

Other rooms of significance on the first floor include an Italian Renaissance Revival style library with gold leaf walls, exposed rafters that are closely set and hand painted and a richly carved stone fireplace; a Georgian Revival style dining room, finished in California redwood, with elaborately carved wall ceiling and other decorative features, a breakfast room with original teak floor, plaster ceiling and hand carved entry screen; and a drawing room with a fine marble fireplace and richly detailed plaster ceiling.

On the second floor on the south wing is the Master Suite consisting of two bedrooms, two bathrooms and two sitting rooms. In the north wing of the second floor are family and guest-rooms, bedrooms and baths. The third floor houses additional guest bedrooms and baths in the north wing and seventeen bedrooms and a bath in a Domestic Suite.