Anna N. Clark, in her article The House of the Dons, describes the interior of the house, "There were a dozen large, lofty, high ceiling rooms paneled in walnut. The downstairs rooms had sliding doors opening into the spacious ballroom. There was a low, wide, curving stairway, a perfect entrance for the Spanish beauties who came tripping down it. The furniture was of great, heavy pieces of ornately carved wood... The table linens were of finest drawnwork, for the ladies of the household were dextrous needle women. Twenty chandeliers, with their hanging rainbow prisms, lighted the rooms...The kitchen was an enormous work room where various servants, both Indian and native, were busy endlessly with the affairs of food."* The mansion was destroyed by fire.