Idle Hour Tour Links
    Introduction
    The First Mansion
    The Second Mansion
    Entrance Hall
    Dining Room
    Living Hall
    Library
    Queen Anne Salon
    Corridor
    Smoking Room
    Cloisters
    Palm Garden
    Tennis Court & Cloister Wing
    Staircase
    The Second Floor
    The Third Floor
    Basement
    Post Vanderbilt Years
    Dowling College

    The Estate and Environs

The Mansion
Dining Room

Karl Bitter, the acclaimed Austrian sculptor, designed the architectural elements of the dining room, including the ivory colored, cast plaster harvest friezes surrounding the room. Below the friezes, the walls are hand-rubbed Circassian walnut. The sculpture of Diana, carved in high relief out of one block of marble by Bitter, is the highlight of the room. A massive oak table is in the middle with matching carved chairs. The doorknobs are of Czechoslovakian blown glass.


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