On the Web site advertising it for sale, photographs show its vast gracious rooms hauntingly empty.
He led them through a succession of shadowy, chilly, gracious rooms with shuttered windows, apologizing for the mess and the state of decay: his dragging foot seemed to be part of his diffidence.
Luxury: The elegant Arizona Inn, 2200 East Elm Street, (800) 933-1093, fax (520) 881-5830, www.arizonainn.com, has been undergoing subtle refurbishments recently, toning up already gracious rooms and enhancing its international reputation for privacy, comfort and impeccable service.
Though Wall Street was still riding the roller coaster, there was little weeping and gnashing of teeth in those gracious rooms high above Park Avenue, among some of the best-informed people in America.
The gracious rooms of the Council's New York home gently but firmly encourage civility -- but that encouragement can sometimes fall short of the energy released by controversial topics.
In his address he said: The Times reported on Jefferson's speech the following day, adding that Jefferson forecast that "the day would never dawn when the gracious rooms of the Royal Society would be converted into garages to house these new fellows".
In the gracious living room with bay windows, Ms. Holstlaw confronted the new realities, ever so politely.
Residents at Harbor's Edge, an upscale retirement community in downtown Norfolk, Va., appreciate their gracious dining room, called the River Terrace.
In 1992 they acquired a small Loire Valley chateau, whose gracious music room gave them the idea of making a domestically sized collection.
