£500,000 MANSION
GIVEN TO WAR. WORK. Sixty men engaged on national service at £3 a week are billeted in one of London’s most luxurious homes —the £500,000 Georgian mansion of Countess Haugwitz Reventlow, the Woolworth millionairess. They were astonished at the wealth and lavishness’ of the appointments. Some of the wonders included: Countess Barbara's own bathroom containing £2OOO worth of green and ivory marble, a gold-plated bath and a chro-mium-lined Turkish bath. Bathrooms attached to all the principal bedrooms Pitied with the most exquisite appointments, including gold-plated taps. A double marble staircase, beautifully modelled and proportioned, taken from an old French chateau. The largest gold-plated chandelier in London, hanging in the broad-windoWed draw-ing-room. Doors and cupboards inlaid with mirror glass and gold fittings. A dining-room which was recently decorated in the style of Louis XIV.. at a cost of £6,000. But recently the mansion was stripped of its treasures and presented a grim, barrack-like appearance. Windows had been boarded up or covered with si eel gates.
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 24 February 1940, Page 8
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166£500,000 MANSION Wairarapa Times-Age, 24 February 1940, Page 8
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