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“WOODMONT”

Address: 10628 S Longwood Dr
Published In: Weekly Review (1923-1928)

“WOODMONT”

Ashleigh C. Halliwell’s Residence, 10628 Longwood Drive,

Now Offered for Sale.

Basement of solid masonry, besides furnace and laundry divisions, has

a billiard room and fine cold storage room for vegetables and fruits.

Twelve-foot porch across entire front. At S. W. corner is a screened

dining porch. Commodious reception hall and fine open stairway. Living

room 22×16 with library shelves across one wall and generous arched

fireplace. Dining room 24×12, with fireplace, south bay window, deep

window seat and built-in sideboard. Kitchen light and airy, with every

convenience. Lavatory. Easy inside steps to basement and north entry.

West kitchen porch.

Four “man size” bedrooms, six closets, tile bath, clothes chute, two

cabinets and big linen closet with drawers at end of hall on second floor.

Two extra fine bedrooms on third floor, with closets, a large trunk room

and essential piping for another bath room. Over all an attic.

The house is “back” or double plastered, making it extra warm in

winter and cool in summer. Weather boarding of the narrow type, win-

dows American plate glass. Natural hardwood floors and finish through-

out.

The house sits on the brow of the ridge, the yard sloping eastward

225 feet to Longwood Drive, southward 90 feet from the side porch to the

E. J. Barker (now Charles E. Davis) line in the middle of a deep ravine.

Adjoining this property on the west Mr. Halliwell has 100 feet frontage

on Seeley Ave., with a driveway through. Front lawn 150 feet wide.

Naturalistic landscaping. Flowering shrubs, trees and hardy perennials.

Mr. Halliwell may be reached temporarily at 1321 Penn Ave., Miami

Beach, Fla. Property shown by appointment. Telephone Beverly 1348 or

D. C. Patton, Beverly 3126.

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