The Victorian styles in architecture, furniture, and interior design faded from popularity not long after the death of their namesake, Queen Victoria of England, in 1901.

The reception hall features oak paneling, stairway, and fireplace mantel. The carvings show a mixture of Romanesque and Jacobean turning and decoration.

The mirror is the original beveled glass. The upper tiles show a grotesque classical head and gryphons, while the side tiles use the sunflower and the dragonfly. Sunflowers were a stereotyped motif popularized by the English Aesthetic movement around 1880, often used in art pottery and textiles of the period.