Several public areas and rooms, including an imposing mahogany staircase, a ballroom, billiards room, dining room, spectacular stained glass ceiling, and kitchen have been expertly restored, while some finishes, furniture and masonry have been recreated from architectural drawings from the period.
But Mr. Melius poured $25 million into the renovation, refurbishing the opulent ballroom, dining room and library to the way it looked when Enrico Caruso, Arturo Toscanini and Charlie Chaplin were among Kahn's frequent guests.
The spreadsheet charted 140 hotels from Manhattan to Phoenix, with color-coded tabs and columns for ballroom size, room rates and the number of layovers to fly there.
The New Yorker, December 8 , 1945P. 25 Talk story about Paramount Pictures buying Mrs. Vanderbilt's ballroom, dining room and library, for studio sets.
By William McGuire and Geoffrey T. Hellman The New Yorker, December 8 , 1945P. 25 Talk story about Paramount Pictures buying Mrs. Vanderbilt's ballroom, dining room and library, for studio sets.
On the second floor, the couple's study occupies the space that was once the ballroom, a room of such splendor that it is hard to believe you are in London and not at Chatsworth.
State activists are sometimes told their requests for the president to appear at a typical political event, in some ballroom with room dividers or at the local labor hall, aren't going to fly.
Louis R. Cappelli, who heads the group that owns the 1,600-acre 1,600-acresaid that he would build a four-star, 525-room hotel as well as a ballroom, meeting rooms and a sproperty
These houses typically have 10 or more bedrooms, each with a large bath; at least two kitchens; two living rooms; a ballroom; a media room; and a six-car garage.
Now owned by the Mid-Bronx Senior Citizens Council, it has a grand ballroom, dining rooms, dozens of private bedrooms and a handsome library whose ceiling is now falling down.
