ONE of Morgan Park’s most beautiful of the newer residences is the home of S. H. Van Artsdale, vice-president of Wallbrun, Kling and Company. He and his family have been in the community only about three months.
The house, located at 2022 W. 110th Street, is built after the English country home style and contains six rooms. One of the most attractive features of the place is the artistic blending of the construction, the rubble stone entrance pillars and walks and steps with the steep hill and the rubble stone retaining wall.
The entrance faces 110th street and leads to the reception hall, which in turn opens to a smaller hall at the rear. To the right are French doors to a screened-in porch on the east side and arches give to the living room on the left. The hall to the rear conceals the staircase and opens to the kitchen, a kitchen closet, lavatory, and coat closet.
The living room affords an air of spaciousness and privacy. The row of casement windows at the front is so high above the street that the passerby obtains no glimpse of the interior. At the west end of the room is a large natural fireplace, surmounted by two smaller windows on each side.
French doors separate the living room and the dining room, the latter occupying the northwest corner. Casement windows in the west wall provide a beautiful view.
The kitchen is at the rear center and contains a breakfast nook. The kitchen floor is covered with an embossed linoleum in tile design and cemented to the floor with a felt base. Among the conveniences are a clothes chute and an incinerator. The wainscoting is of white tile.
The upper floor contains three bedrooms, which open from a north and south hall. The master bedroom extends across the front, over the living room; another is found on the northwest corner; and the third, which is used as a sewing room, is at the northeast corner. The bath, with white tile walls and pink and white tile floor, is on the east side. A small upper porch balcony is found on the north side, gained through the sewing room. There is a large attic over the entire second floor.
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