£20,000 “COTTAGE”

Taranaki Central Press, Volume IV, Issue 455, 24 June 1937, Page 2

£20,000 “COTTAGE”

PERSIAN HOME AT HONOLULU “Keep Out” Will Be Its Name London, May 22. Doris Duke inherited £25,000,000 and married James Cromwell. son of one of J. P. Morgan’s millionaire partners. To ditcover how some of the money could best be spent they visited —the British Museum. Their task was to seek details of Persian houte decoration for the five-roomed cottage they are building on the famous Waikiki beach at Honolulu. A beach cottage, but it will cost £20,000—£<§00 a room. “Our cottage,” Mr Cromwell said, “will be an exact replica of an ancient Persian mansion. It will have an attractive, square-looking appearance, because we have decided to do

without the Persian minarets. Rut I the windows will be genuine Persian | in shape. 1 ‘‘ln London my wife has been buy- I ing a number of things tor it—inchjd- I ing some lovely tables and Persian ; pictures. We’ll have some tine j tapestries, too.” . { A small fortune will be spent on i laying out a typical Persian garden | Ancient books will give clues to the i right sort of flowers. They will j doom perfectly in the Honolulu cli- i mate. There will be four and a half acres of garden about the house. It will i contain a large swimming-pool. ’•The world’s richest girl” is also j known as. one of the most publicity i ! shunning. II r Persian home will be | called Hali Kapu—which is Hawaiian , i for “Keep out!”