Evening Republican, Volume 14, Number 91, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 16 April 1910 — QUICK WORK ON HER PALACE. [ARTICLE]

QUICK WORK ON HER PALACE.

Mr«. Leiter Givea Builders Six Months to Finish Home. Records will go by the board when the contractors get busy on the magnificent summer residence planned for Mrs. Levi Z. Leiter of Washington and Chicago, and which is to make the Haven estate one of the show places >f the north shore. Up to last summer Mrs. Leiter knew little of Beverly, says a Boston Post corresuondent'. She came here last season, summered at the Pickman cottage at the Cove, fell a victim to the allurements of the Beverly shore, and pronounced Beverly the most delightful place she had ever spent a season r in. She is a good judge, fbr she has traveled the world over. So much did Mrs. Leiter become enamored with Beverly that she decided to purchase a place, and after much hunting finally selected a porttbn of the Haven estate at the farms, where she is said to have paid at the rate of >50,000 an acre for three acres of land, which commands a beautiful view of the sea. Then Mrs. Leiter decided to build. She had been very close to the Tafts during their stay at Beverly, and had entertained the younger people. She had plans made for a mansion house after the old English style, which it is said, will eclipse even Eagle Rock, the mansion of Henry Clay Frick, at Pride’s Crossing. After she had looked over the plans Mrs. Leiter went abroad for a visit with her daughter, the countess of Suffolk, in her Scotland home. “I want to occupy the house by the Ist of August,” Mrs. Leiter told her architects. “We’H do our best,” they replied, and now it’s up to them to make good. Estimates of the cost of the Leiter mansioiuhave varied all the way from $500,000 to $1,000,000, and to build and furnish such a palace Jn six months is a task for giants. It will mean employment for hundreds—perhaps a thousand—all the way from excavators to the highest-priced interior decorators.