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1 . <br /> DUNROVEN HOUSE <br /> Abram Asa Boyce (1E21 — 1E84) came to Dane County from How York <br /> in 1E4+7. He established a fads in the township of Vienna and <br /> within 20 years his land holdings were 480 acres, Boyce Is home, <br /> which he termed "Walnut Hill", is the stone nucleus of the present <br /> home. Boyce served as chairman of the Dane County Board of super- <br /> visors, and also in the state legislature. <br /> After his death, the estate was purchased by E.W. de Bower, n <br /> graduate of the University of Wis. Law School. It was he wbo• ' <br /> built the substr..ntial home that now exists, christening it "Mont— <br /> Joy", in honor of his blind wife. De Bower established La Salle <br /> University in Chicago, and used Mont Joy for cattle breeding and <br /> raising got fox. Older local residents recall dancing in the third <br /> floor ballroom, which had hand painted murals of the countryside done <br /> by an Italian artist. These original walls still reveal the murals <br /> in closets. The entice third floor was panelled in wood, in the 19403. <br /> * <br /> Dunroven House has seven rooms and one bath on the first floor, and <br /> five roop}s and three baths on the second floor. . (The third floor <br /> is one room, sixty fent long by 10 feet wide, with two bays of 11 <br /> square feet each There are fourteen outside exits. <br /> Each of the three units to be made available has its own private bath. <br /> Each unit has an outside porch. Two of the units have extra lounge <br /> area, or a separate sitting room. All are on the second floor. <br /> The structure is of locally quarried stone. The roof is slate. The <br /> three stories add up to 5,400 square feet. <br /> There are t'.;o boilers for hot water heat: one for oil, one for wood. <br /> There are two separate hot water heaters for two sections of the house. <br />