PICTURED above is the beautiful old English home of Mr. and Mrs. Victor H. Munnecke, 9241 Pleasant Avenue. Set diagonally on a terraced corner, this residence presents one of the most attractive homesites in the Ridge district. A profusion of flowers, shade and ornamental trees, vines, shrubs and hedges, gives the home an appearance of permanence that makes for comfortable attractiveness.
The wide lawn is bordered by a low hedge with tall bushes at the corners and beds of fall flowers just inside. Tall trees stand close to each end of the house affording shade for the sun parlors and the foundation is almost entirely concealed by bushes and vines.
The first story of the house is constructed of red brick with white window casements. The second story is done in a light brown stucco with dark brown boarding and white window casements. The floor and steps of the long open porch across the front of the house are cement. At each end of the home the brick work is continued up to the roof, stucco being used only along the front where the second story juts out, as seen in the picture, which adds materially to the roominess of the bedrooms.
A high panneled wooden door admits one to the lower hall and from the hall there are French doors leading to the living room to the east, and a small den or telephone room toward the rear. The living room is very large, extending across the entire west end of the house and is furnished tastefully with an eye to comfort. The windows in this room, four in number, extend across the front exposure and are of the bay type, forming an alcove that is equipped with comfortable window seats. At the west side of the living room are French doors leading to the west sun parlor.
Returning through the hall one comes to the spacious dining room which is well lighted, and at the east side of it are French doors leading to another sun parlor on the east end of the house. Both of these sun parlors are finished in the rough brick used in the outside construction. A well equipped kitchen occupies the northeast corner of the first floor.
The broad stairway ascending from the lower hall ends in the upper hall which extends east and west the length of the second floor, like a corridor. Opening from it are doors leading to five bedrooms and a sleeping porch, the latter practically amounting to another large bedroom. There are three baths on this floor. A stucco finish for the walls is used on this floor, the predominating tones being buff, grey and light grey-green. The color tones down stairs are light brown ranging to tan and greys.
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