A RICH MAN'S DREAM.
STORY OF BLIGHTED HOPES.
A tragedy of unfulfilled hopes has come to light at Newquay, in Cornwall. Years ago, after the rubber boom in 1910, a wealthy stockbroker set out to build himself a Roman villa upon a rocky headland overlooking the Atlantic. Money was no object, and the villa, complete with atrium and swimming bath, was to be a romantic retreat from the prosaic world of finance. Hundreds of tons of rock were blasted away, and colonnades and ornamental pools on Roman lines began to take shape. But the war broke out before the project was complete, and with it a change in the finances of the builder. To-day, the villa, atrium, and bath remain, half-finished, though the melancholy spot, known locally as " The Folly," is occasionally visited by the impoverished stockbroker, who sees in it the sepulchre of his dreams. It is said that he still hopes to complete the work and spend his declining years in dignified seclusion.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LXIII, Issue 19382, 17 July 1926, Page 2 (Supplement)
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