The G. H. Garretson Home
THE residence of G. H. Garretson, 10315 S. Leavitt Street, is an eight room English cottage constructed of dark red face brick with ivory trim and green shutters for the exterior. The house faces west on Leavitt Street and the entrance, a massive paneled door with a circular glass pane, is set under an unusually deep arch.
The reception hall contains a typically English staircase and extends, through a series of arches, to an inner vestibule which opens on the north to a lavatory and on the south to the basement stairs. An arch to the right of the entrance leads to the living room. This room and the hall are finished in deep ivory sponge plaster with walnut trim.
The living room is quite large and the feature here is the fireplace, in the center of the east wall. It is very deep and is made of white cut stone. The fixtures in this room are the wall type, polychromed in dull shades, with Tiffany bulbs. The windows here are of the Hoffman casement type, that can be folded and slid to either side.
A deep, narrow arch with nooks for books and china, leads from the southwest corner of the living room to the dining room. Here the walls are Tiffanized canvas and paneled. The fixtures are of silver. Adjoining this room on the east and connected by French doors, is the solarium. Red tile is used for the floors here. A swing door connects the dining room with the kitchen, which is adequately equipped with built-in cabinets. A pair of these flank the drain, in the north wall, with a row of smaller ones over the windows above the drain. The kitchen also has a rear entryway and an outside icing arrangement. A comfortable breakfast nook is set in the east wall of the kitchen under an arch. There are windows here overlooking the garden and just below them a series of small built-in cabinets for china.
The upper floor contains a large central hall which opens to the four rooms and the bath. A large bedroom is found over the living room. The other two bed rooms are found on the southeast and northeast corners while a storage and play room occupies the northwest position. The bath is located between the two bedrooms on the south. A large attic, completely floored, extends over all of the rooms.
A hot water heating plant, burning coke, is used in this home, and at the rear is found a two-car garage, finished similarly to the house proper and equipped with doors that roll up.
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