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...Walnut Hills High, Cincinnati Oklahoma
What makes Bridgeport's Walnut Wood one of the nation's treasures is that it remains the best example of the work of Alexander Jackson Davis, one of the most versatile of architects, who designed state capitols (Indiana, North Carolina) and institutions (the first New York University), but preferred to build houses for people who felt, as one contemporary critic put it, that "there is something wonderfully captivating in the idea of a battlemented castle." Destruction of his Walnut Wood would leave only one other of Davis' major Gothic mansions still standing and unaltered: Lyndhurst, the marble...
...Walnut Wood, a 17-room mansion built for Saddle Maker Henry K. Harral, was looked up to in its time as a work of art and the acme of taste. It boasts a tower without, twin parlors within. Elaborate valances edged with silk ball fringe hung at the lancet bay windows, framing Chauncey Ives's most famous statue, his marble semi-nude Pandora. The dining-room walls are paneled in fine, carved walnut. The ceiling of the great hallway is a Gothic arch of wood ribs with gilded bosses representing the heads of such men as Shakespeare, Socrates...
...prominent circles set in the rectangle of the living area. Blue translucent-glass panels let in light and cut the glare; the interior is furnished with pale Japanese silks, gold-veined black Belgian marble, Finnish lamps, lacquered cane and teak chairs, aquamarine Puerto Rican tile, East Indian alabaster, a walnut-paneled bath with a circular tub of cerulean Italian tiles. Architect Hampton built the house to suit the owner's specific demands: "A home where I and my friends could be comfortable in shorts or a dinner jacket...
...indications, Ike declined to let his week's problems interfere with his springtime mood. One day he practiced golf shots on the White House lawn; another day he drove to Burning Tree for 18 holes. With Mamie and granddaughter Susan, 5, he planted a six-foot Illinois black walnut tree on the White House lawn, happily called his energetic shoveling "more fun than anything I'm doing in the office." told Susan she would "be an old lady before this is a big tree." At week's end he drove to Gettysburg, there inspected his prize herd...