When you come up the entrance stairs, you enter this grand living room. The massive fieldstone fireplace serves as a backdrop for the docent's introduction. The actor Gillette (nothing to do with razors) defined Sherlock Holmes for the generation before Basil Rathbone and movies, introduced the distinctive hat to the character, and made about 3 mil turn of the century dollars doing it. He, having to pay no income tax (it wasn't invented yet) spent a third of that income building this house.