点评:My husband and I drove 1 1/2 hours to visit the mansion after hearing an advertisement on WGN radio. What a huge disappointment! The building is in terrible disrepair.What once must have been an impressive horseshoe staircase on the outside of the mansion was no more. It had completely fallen off and lay in ruins. The interior would be amazing if they had enough money to bring the woodwork back to its original glory. It was worn, faded and neglected. The parquet floors had been refinished and were beautiful but that was about the only thing that was. Wallpaper was peeling off in sheets, plaster walls were crumbling and cracked. Paint was faded and dirty. The Christmas tour was a handful of rooms with trees decorated no better than Walmart trees. If they had advertised the tour as a fund raiser I might be more inclined to recommend it, however, spending money to walk around a depressing old building was not my idea of fun.
翻译:我和丈夫在WGN电台听到广告后,驱车一个半小时去参观这座宅邸。结果却大失所望!整栋建筑破败不堪。曾经气派非凡的马蹄形楼梯如今已荡然无存,完全坍塌,化为废墟。如果他们有足够的资金将木工修复到昔日的辉煌,内部装潢定会令人惊艳。可惜的是,木工老旧、褪色,年久失修。镶木地板虽然重新打磨过,也算漂亮,但这几乎是整栋建筑唯一值得称道的地方。墙纸成片剥落,石膏墙风化开裂,油漆褪色肮脏。所谓的圣诞之旅不过是几个房间,里面的圣诞树装饰得比沃尔玛的还差。如果他们把这次参观宣传成募捐活动,我或许还会推荐一下,但花钱在一栋破败不堪的老建筑里闲逛,实在算不上什么乐趣。