It is important to understand that how it looks now, is not how they left it. Very little interior was done back then and almost every material purchased at the time was still in crates. That main Staircase was just the stone original structure, the marble had not been added yet. It was just a big drafty building that resonated sad and melancholy . The rooms you see now look as though they were lived in, they were not. It was still under construction when she passed away. It is going to end up being a beautiful place, but, for what purpose? Just so a group of people can march through it and now have the feeling that life actually existed in the place. I was there in 1958, it was a stone walled castle, undone, unattractive and just, even for a 10 year old... a sad, sad place to be. It was however, much more emotionally poignant at that time because of the story, not because of the building.
I'm sorry, I know I can be a downer sometime, but, when you figure that I saw that place 60 years ago, as it was when she died and the emotional importance that it had to me, a 10 year old boy, apparently is completely imprinted in my brain. Besides, if I were to build a castle like that, it would be air conditioned. You can have the fans
@JenniferS .
