To Mary Rogers, the sister of the British vice-consul in Haifa, it seemed at the start of 1860's as "the handsomest dwelling-house I had seen in Palestine.
海法英国副领事的妹妹玛丽·罗杰斯在1860年代初评价说： “这是我在巴勒斯坦见过的最漂亮的住宅。