![]() ![]() The second floor is home to the unique Moon Window, a nod to Asian culture which was a popular part of decor in this time period. The woodwork in the fireplace, mantel & built in sideboard and so full of detail I could spend hours admiring it. So pretty that I honestly can’t imagine every using it – I wouldn’t want to ruin it. So surprising to find in a home of this age! Beauty and function – what is better than that? The surprise? These beautiful tiles serve another purpose as well, as they provide radiant floor heat. The tiles surrounding the hearth are beautiful – greens, yellows, blues – and the ceiling features beautiful floral and greenery motifs. ![]() The architecture of this home is classified as part of the Aesthetic Movement, therefore featuring imagery, colors & textures that you would see in nature and this certainly showcased in this room. Fireplaces & mantels are obvious focus points in homes of this age, and this one did not disappoint. After delivering safe power to the rest of the house, he continued to have his library on some type of separate system so that if the power did go out, his library would not be affected. Eustis was no fool – in the testing of the delivery of the electricity to the home, he first hooked up his own library to ensure it was safe. While the actual physics behind it are well above me, the fact that he essentially made the home self-sufficient, by creating & utilizing such a technological advancement for the time, all on his own is amazing. Eustis, is that he figured out how to create his own power to bring to the house. But perhaps the most impressive feat of W.E.C. He had a dark room in the basement as he is credited for most of the old photographs you’ll see when visiting the house, but also had a “tinkering” room in the attic (see the “Eye Spy” section below for where this room was located!). He was a Harvard graduate, specializing in Engineering, and throughout his life owned mines & a smelting company.
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