Chateau Laurier was a pet project of railway mogul Charles Melville Hays who insisted on the finest Italian marble, Indiana limestone and European crystal.
Dominating the north gallery as the Mozia Charioteer dominates the south is a life-size limestonemarble statue of the woodland diety Priapos, as powerfully hulking and oversexed as the Charioteer is suave and teasingly erotic.