porch. A heavy 4-foot-wide Dutch
door invites you into rooms with
original 6-foot-high Queen Anne
windows that combine stained glass
and clear glass mullions. The main
hallway, dining room and parlor
with 10-foot ceilings are all original.
It was love at first sight when the
Herzes stepped into the main hallway
and looked up at cherry beams set
perpendicular to dark polished wainscoting on the ceiling. Wainscotingcovered walls bordered with crushed
stone dramatically frame a fieldstone
fireplace,
A long oak staircase with hand
carved medallions winds up to the
5-by-7 painting of Christ Before
Caiaphas, a copy of the 1610 original
that hangs in The National Gallery in
London. The painting was bought by
Albert Payson Terhune as a gift for
his wife. It hung in the music room
at Sunnybank.
The parlor, with a working
fireplace (one of six in the house) and
cherry wood paneling on the walls
and ceiling, also houses the library.
Furnished with an eclectic combination of antiques and reproductions,
the home reflects its history. The
Herzes purposely strayed from strict
Victorian furnishings. They proudly
display a hand-stitched reproduction
of an antique N.J. quilt Erika made,
and an oil painting she did of The
Outlook from an original photo taken
when they first bought the house.
The original dining room is
crowned with decorative paper on the
ceiling. Stretched across the length of
their formal table is a hand-quilted
table runner that features a wedding
ring pattern. A treasured grandfather’s clock from England dates back
to the late 1700s. Double French
doors lead out to the grand 17-feet
deep wraparound porch which
overlooks the lake and across to
Sunnybank amid magnificent mountains. “We held my son’s wedding out
here on this porch,” says Erika. ➤
MAY 2016
WAYNE MAGAZINE
45