How does the narrator describe Lavan House, the family's vacation home in the novel, Midnight Bargain?

From the text:

“A new fashionable home called Meryton Highway—locals called it Money Road, for all the lavish homes dotted between beachside Bendleton and the port town that handled a third of all the shipping for Chasland… It was certainly more impressive than Riverstone Cottage, the Clayborns’ home in the north country” (67).

“Even from this beech-lined difference distance, the sheer size and symmetry of this modern country house stunned her. Red bricked, black-roofed, perfectly balanced—doors and windows meant for convenience and light that disregarded the additional tax expense calculated each year—it was the finest house Beatrice had ever seen outside of an illustration” (90).