ACCORDING to the American Small Homes Institute, the residence of George H. Bohnstengel, 10453 S. Leavitt Street, is an American adaptation of the Italian and Spanish designed for the single floor dwelling.
The entrance, on the east, is a heavy, laminated V-grooved door of Spanish design. It opens to a black and white tiled vestibule with a vaulted ceiling. From here an arch opens to the living room.
The living room is 12 1/2 by 20, and occupies a corner position, with one of the bedrooms also at the front facing Leavitt Street. Opposite the vestibule arch the west wall of the living room is broken by a book niche. To the left of this is a fireplace, and the extreme left of the wall is broken by an arch which leads to the dining room. The north wall of the living room is also broken by an arch, this leading to an inner corridor from which the two bedrooms with the bath between, on the north side, are gained. The dining room occupies the southwest corner, with the kitchen adjacent, between it and the rear bedroom.
Opening from the kitchen and from the rear bedroom is a large porch on the west side. The porch is divided, one half fitted as a sleeping porch, the other as a service porch for the kitchen.
The living room, dining room and vestibule are all finished in sand plaster, cloth stippled in a tiffany tone. Here the fixtures are wrought iron. Spanish design. In the bedrooms they are given a more modern touch and are slightly polychromed. All of the windows are set in steel casements and are equipped with a new type of rolling screen, which operates like a shade and adds greatly to the convenience of a home with casement windows.
The kitchen, while small, is very compact and convenient in its arrangement, and well lighted with the drain against the west wall beneath a row of windows. A vestibule off the kitchen contains doors to the basement stairs and to the service porch. The heating plant is one of the hot water type.
A buff face brick is used for the exterior with blue-green wood trim. The roof is of mottled red tile and the gutters of copper.
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