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White columns and a fanlight over the front door
speak of southern architecture beneath towering pines.
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Instead of hating to drive miles away to "get away"
from home, the "Bock" Tolleson family can just cross the
back yard and enter their "cabin" with its big playroom
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■ Th» rear of the Tolleson house offers a charming view
■ of white balcony against brick, canopied patio, and dia
and a visitor to the J. R. Tolleson home will find southern
hospitality to match inside this spacious home.
downstairs and two guest bedrooms upstairs. The archi
tecture of the building is designed to blend perfectly
with the big house.
mond paned windows of the den which overlook this
outdoor livin garea.
Tolleson House Features Southern
Architecture, Spacious Guest House
BY MAXINE THOMPSON
The home of the T. R.
Tolleson family at 811 Forest
Hill Road in Perry is really
two in one—a lovely, white
columned two story house
out front and a charming
balconied two-story guest
house across an outdoor liv
ing area in the rear.
•‘We had a cottage at Lake
Lanier,” Mrs. Mary Tolleson
explained, ‘‘But we never
had time to go up there and
enjoy it. So now we have
our separate play room with
two guest rooms upstairs,
and the children especially
enjoy it.”
The paneled playroom has
a fireplace that is really
used, and a corner snack
area containing stove, sink
and refrigerator where the
young folks enjoy making
pizzas, hamburgers, and oth
er delicious foods for their
guests. The red carpet makes
a bright background for sofa
and chairs covered in black
and white vinyl, and hounds
tooth check in the same
black and white. A patriotic
theme is carried out in dec
orations, and a ping pong
table can be brought out
from its storage place under
the stairs for a lively game.
Carpeting in the two up
stairs guest bedrooms is blue
green, and the walls are
wood with stain rubbed in.
Furniture in one room is an
tique white, and in the other
is green, refinished by Mrs.
Tolleson after being brought
back from the lake cabin.
All carpeting in the v play”
house is the indoor-outdoor
variety for easiest of care.
Between the two buildings,
there is a wide expanse of
lush green grass and tower
ing pines, then steps down
to canopied patio beneath a
white balcony.
Inside the cosy den with
gray slate floor and green
rug, the brown, green and
gold tones in upholstery and
drapes extend the earth col
ors of the outdoors and add
warmth to the fireplace wall
of brick, and black wrought
iron candelabra and other
light fixtures. Touches of
nostalgia are aroused by the
antique clock on the mantel
and a vase of fragrant gar
denias on the coffee table.
At one side of the den
there is a raised dining area
with indoor-outdoor carpet
in tweed of orange, green
and brown. Adjoining the
den, coming toward the
front of the house, there is
a library area with floor to
ceiling shelves holding
books, and records. A floral
sofa brings bright color to
the room, and the coffee ta
ble is a big old round oak
dining table cut down and
refinished by Mrs. Tolleson.
There is plenty of room on it
for the family magazines.
The large kitchen has an
abundance of two things so
many kitchens lack cabi
nets and room to work. There
is even room for a small
table and two chairs, where
Mr. and Mrs. Tolleson usu
ally share breakfast in the
mornings.
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Mr. and Mr*. Tolleson, early risers, usually share
breakfast at the little table in their roomy kitchen full of
The living room has an
tique ivory walls, as most of
the living area downstairs
does, and has gold carpet
and gold drapes with anti
que ivory glass curtains and
gold ball fringe trim. Uphol
stery of the sofa and chairs
is in varying soft shades of
green, and a lovely antique
secretary graces one wall. A
beautiful original oil land
scape hangs over the sofa
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A brick firuplac* wall and earth colors of brown, geld and green add to the
cosiness of the Tolleson den that overlooks the rear patio. The grap slate floor
for easy care is partially covered by a green rug.
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Black and white vinyl upholstery, paneled walls, and a patriotic theme make
for many enjoyable hours spent by the Tolleson family in their separate game
room, where pizzas, hamburgers, coffee and other snacks are prepared behind the
corner snack bar.
between front windows.
Throw pillows add color to
the muted tones of the sofa.
In the front entrance hall
there stands perhaps the
oldest thing in this house
that combines the old with
the new —a 1790 Hepple
white game table set beside
the graceful staircase to the
second floor.
This lovely and spacious
bedroom is on the ground
beautifully finished wood cabinets with cheerful ball*
fringed curtains and a green plant growing in a sunny
window.
floor, and each of the four
Tolleson children, three dau
ghters and a son, has a sep
arate bedroom on the second
floor, each furnished in a
style designed to fit the per
sonality of its occupant.
Standing at the edge of
the front lawn and looking
one is treated to a picture
of beautiful southern archi
tecture, with southern hospi
tality inside to match.