THE residence of Mr. and Mrs. David Woods, 1930 W. 101st Place, is an eight room English cottage. The house, facing south, is well placed on a deep lot, 62 1/2 feet wide by 197 deep. Buff stucco is used for the exterior with red brick trim and a greenish shingle for the roof. The profusion of hedges, shrubs, and flowers, as the picture, taken in the summer time, indicates, with the deep lot at the rear, terraced down to a ravine and set with a rustic bridge and arbor, make the site one of the most pleasing in the neighborhood.
The entrance is found on the southwest corner, set under a small porch with arches on the south and west. The heavy door opens to a small vestibule, from which a short flight of stairs leads to an east-west reception hall. Opening from the vestibule are a guest closet and a lavatory, and there is another guest closet in the reception hall. From here an open door gives to the living room, on the south.
This room is finished in sand color with the radiators stippled to match. The wood trim is oak, which is used throughout the lower floor except in the kitchen. A large fireplace is placed in the center of the west wall with small casement windows on each side. Another row of casement windows gives a view of the street on the south, and at the east end of the room there is one more window, where the room extends beyond the line of the sun-room to the east. This provides three exposures. Both hanging and wall light fixtures are used in the living room.
French doors lead from the living room to the sun-room on the east, which has three exposures, and another set of French doors opens to the dining room on the north, from which a view of the deep rear yard and also a view of the east side can be had. The feature of the dining room is the large built-in buffet in the north wall.
A swing door admits directly to the kitchen on the northwest corner of this floor. This is done in grey. A rear entry is found here, opening to a rear vestibule with an outside icing arrangement and with a large pantry adjacent.
Two flights of stairs lead from the reception hall to the second floor and from the landing there is a door opening to an auxiliary stairway to the kitchen.
Upstairs there are four bedrooms placed in corner positions and grouped about a central hall. Birch trim is used on this floor and all of the rooms are done in light colors. All of the available space under the steep lines of the room has been converted into closets. The positions of the bedrooms provide cross ventilation in each one. The bath occupies a central position and is done in white tile. There is a small balcony porch on the north overlooking the rear yard.
An oil plant is used for the heating in this home.
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