The focal point
of the Edwardian Library is its beamed ceiling, heavy architraves,
and fireplace and mantle, fashioned after the one found in the
great banquet hall of Warwick Castle in England. In the panel above
the mantle shelf is the coat-of-arms and motto, "Solus Sto," of
Ida Haraszthy Hancock's noble Hungarian family. Under the shelf
is her warm expression of hospitality: "Tis my home and yours,
my friend."
Portraits of
Captain Hancock and his mother, Ida Haraszthy Hancock are also
on display in the Library, along with a pair of stout medieval
Florentine hand-tooled leather chairs, a Venetian mother-of-pearl
inlayed Savonarola chair and an imposing nine-foot tall Oak carved
Grandfather clock.