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l-THE HOUSTON HOME JOURNAL. WEDNESDAY, JULY 22, 1992
Home & Garden
Andrew home one of oldest in Perry
By KELLIE ROWDEN
Staff Writer
Buddy and Jenny Andrew of
1104 Washington Street are cur
rently living in one of the oldest
houses in Perry. This quaint but
solid-looking home was one of the
first residential homes in Perry to
have wired electricity and a sewage
system.
The home was built in 1908 by
Carey Baxter Andrew, Buddy An
drew's grandfather. The home has
remained in the family ever since.
“This is a true family home. No
one but relatives of the Andrews'
have occupied it,” Jenny Andrew
explained.
Charles Andrew, Buddy An
drew’s father, was bom in die house
as was his brother Carey Baxter
Andrew Jr. He remembers the
house as it originally was, nestled
in the center of a much smaller
town of Perry. Andrew remembers
Washington Street being a dirt road
and most of the houses being cen
tered around Swift Street.
In 1934, Andrew and his brother
built the goldfish pond by the
house. Only eight houses in Perry
at the time had goldfish ponds, but
more were built as they became
more fashionable.
“I’ve seen some of the fish get
to two pounds,” Charles Andrews
remembered.
The house, although in good
shape presently, has experienced
two fires since 1908. One fire was
in 1928. Charles Andrew remem
bers it being a cold evening because
the fireplace in the formal dining
room was in use.
“I remember hearing a crackling
sound overhead, looked up and
could sec the fire through the cracks
in the beaded ceiling,” Andrews
said.
The damage was minimal due to
the fire being put out quickly.
The second l ire happened years
later in the present day master bed
room. There used to be a fire place
in the room, but the damage from
the fire forced them to remove die
chimney. Now there is a cut out
space where a dresser and a televi
sion set.
There is a dog house sitting in
the backyard of the house. Charles
Andrew remembers that he and his
brother would sit out there all of
the time and listen to the radio.
Mary Green brings a touch of the north
By KELLIE ROWDEN
Staft Writer
Mary Green of 7()4 Evergreen
Street may be a northern fish in
southern waters, but she has defi
nitely kept some of her “yankee”
upbringing that shows through her
cooking.
Originally from Massachusetts,
Green’s favorite cookbook is admit
tedly the “Yankee Cookbook” that
she ordered out of, you guessed it,
Yankee Magazine.
“I don’t really cook any southern
food. I will make casseroles,
though, and 1 guess that’s kind of
southern,” Green said.
Green said that she cooks a lot
with rhubarb, which apparently
isn’t a common ingredient in the
south. Green remembered once
when she was at Kroger, the cashier
had no clue what rhubarb was.
“She asked me if it was red cel
ery,” Green said smiling.
While Green doesn’t cook every
single day, she does go “in spurts”
where she’ll do a lot of cooking.
“When I’m in the mood, I’ll
make something really neat, but
beyond that, I’ll cook only basic
foods,” Green said.
What Green means by some
thing “neat” is gourmet recipes
found in her own cookbooks or
ones that she has found in the li
brary. Green told of one time when
she and her son decided at 10 p.m.
to boil some lobsters just because
they wanted to.
“My husband thinks I’m a mur
derer w'hen I put them in the boil
ing water, so he goes into the other
room,” Green said.
Another interesting aspect of
Green’s cooking is that she never
uses mixes of any type and never
has. Cooking from scratch is really
important to Green.
“I enjoy seeing the finished
product when I bake from scratch.
There’s no creative effort when you
bake from a mix,” Green explained.
Although she is quite talented in
the kitchen, Green actually never
learned to cook until she got out of
college. Up until then her mother
did most of the cooking except for
an occasional breakfast made by
Green or one of her five sisters.
Now Green, herself, does most
The Andrew home is one of the oldest in Perry. In the formal dining room, above, the ceilings
are "2 feet high. The pictured sofa is hand carved of rosewood and once sat in the governor’s
mansion.
“Wc would listen when World
War II was just starting,” Andrew
said.
The house is obviously old, but
has been beautifully kept over the'’
years. Aside from an addition to
the side and some re-modeling on
the inside, the house is pretty much
the same.
There is a front door facing
Washington Street. The door is
while with white framing. On ei
ther side of the door are two win
dows that frame the door with day
light. This area of the house used
to be a small entry hallway, but the
wall has been knocked down and it
is now one big formal living room
with hard wood floors, thick w'hitc
molding and seafoam colored walls.
Sitting in the middle of the room is
a beautifully hand carved rosewood
sofa with cream colored paddings.
This particular sofa was, at one
time, in die governor's mansion ac
cording to Jenny Andrew.
Other furniture includes two
plush-looking teal armchairs and
several antiques such as tables, cof
fee tables, bookshelves and china
cabinets.
The ceilings in the house are all
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of the cooking except for an occa
sional breakfast of eggs and waffles
made by her husband. By die way,
Green stopped using Bisquick mix
as soon as they got their waffle
maker.
Besides not using mixes of any
type, Green also docs not use or
even own a microwave.
“I’ve never had one, so 1 guess I
don’t know what I’m missing,”
Green said.
Green describes her family’s diet
as being basically healthy. The
whole family is very sports
oriented and enjoys their healthy
cuisine. Green is pleased that her
two children both enjoy fresh
vegetables.
“We do a lot of exercising like
swimming and tennis,” Green said.
Currently her 10 year old son is
number two in the state for 10 and
under tennis players. It must be
because he eats all of his vegeta
bles? Well, maybe not, but his
healthy diet certainly couldn’t hurt.
The following are some of the
recipes Green has tried during her
cooking sprees and has found to be
about 12 feet high with windows
that arc only about one foot off of
the floor and go up fairly high.
There are two of these windows on
eiLher side of a corner in the living
room. In die corner, Jenny Andrew
has placed a dark wood plant stand
with silk magnolias on top. The
combination of the light and the
white, sheer flowers is very pretty.
To the side of the living room
is a bedroom that is now serving as
Jenny Andrew’s son's room when
he is home from college. The large
room is decorated in a collegiate
style that Andrew plans to change
at some point in the near future.
At the far end of the living room
is a small opening that leads into
several parts of the house. To the
left is the master bedroom. The
walls arc painted a blue color and
there is an antique brass bed sitting
in the middle of die room. The bed
belonged to Buddy Andrew’s
grandmother. The dresser and bu
reaus are dark w<xxl.
The master bathroom has been
re-modeled since the old days, but
the Andrews have kept some old
fashioned decor to match the rest of
the house. The pedestal style sink,
quite good. Several ot them are
from her “Yankee Cookbook” while
the recipe for Sauerbraten comes
from a restaurant in Chicago called
Bergoff’s. Green’s husband is
originally from Chicago and it is
one of his favorite dishes.
Sauerbraten;
Prepare for cooking a beef
shoulder, chuck, rump or round
steak. Rub pepper and garlic thor
oughly into the meat. Place the
meat in a deep crock or glass bowl.
Heat together, but do not boil:
2 cups of wine vinegar
2 cups water
1/2 cup sliced onions
2 bay leaves
1 tsp. peppercorns
1/4 cup sugar
2 tsp. caraway seeds
Pour the hot marinade over beef.
More than 1/2 should be covered.
Cover with a lid and refrigerate two
to three days, turning occasionally.
Cook at 300-325 degrees for three
hours. Cook with the marinade,
using the heated marinade in place
of stock. When the meat is tender,
for example, and the while wooden
multi-shelved medicine and toiletry
cabinet. The rest of the bathroom
is white-tiled and contains a jacuzzi
tub next to white plantation shut
ters, also in synch with the antiq
uity of the house.
On the other side of the original
opening is a passageway to the
back family room. This room was
originally a scrccned-in back porch.
The floors are slanted because that
is how the rain drained off the
porch. Now it is closed in and con
tains a loaded entertainment center,
a plush leather sofa and lovescal and
an exercise bicycle.
The kitchen is all white and con
tains the original wooden and glass
dish cabinets. There is plenty of
cabinet space and built-in appli
ances surrounding the small wooden
kitchen table. Underneath the glass
cabinets is a cut out space leading
to a high—ceilinged area that is a
combination of a breakfast nook
and a computer room. This room
is long and narrow and has two
arched entryways leading to il.
One of the archways leads to the
formal dining room, the scene of
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sprinkle it with 1/4 cup brown
sugar and roast five to 10 minutes
or until sugar is dissolved.
Remove meat. Thicken marinade
with flour and 1/4 cup cream. This
isrcally good with potato pancakes.
Rhubarb-Cherrv Crunch:
Crust:
1 cup quick oatmeal
1 cup brown sugar
1 cup flour and a pinch of salt
1/2 cup butter
Mix together all of these ingre
dients and press half of the mixture
on the bottom of a 9x13 inch pan.
Filling:
4 cups diced fresh rhubarb
1 cup sugar
1 cup water
2 tbsp. cornstarch
1 tsp. almond flavoring
1 can cherry pie filling
1/2 cup chopped nuts
Spread the diced rhubarb on top
of the crust. Boil the sugar, water
and cornstarch until thick. Add the
almond flavoring, then the pie fill-
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Roofs create dramatic
entryway in home
Soaring rooflines and a square
columned portico create a dramatic
entry in the Tiffany, a contempo
rary two-story home by guest de
signer Tim Thompson of
Springfield, Ore. A brick planter
adds color, while simple barge
boards and decorative windows give
the eye plenty to appreciate.
Vaulted ceilings in the living
room and dining room bring the
feeling of openness inside. The an
gled foyer is a full two stories high,
and bright. Multipaned windows
sweep up the left side of the door,
and stack up on top. A balcony
overlooks the entry, which has a
plant shelf.
The foyer puts you smack dab in
the center of everything. Straight
ahead, an open balustrade rises to
the second floor where all the bed
rooms are located. Formal rooms
are to the left, family room, utility
room and a bathroom with exterior
access are to the right. The kitchen
is at the back, between the dining
room and family room.
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An arched opening marks the en
trance to the family room, which
has a fireplace and French doors that
open onto a small patio covered by
a wooden arbor. Wide bay windows
expand and brighten a large country
kitchen with every modern conve
nience. Features include an appli
ance center, desk pantry, built-in
oven, range and dishwasher and an
eating bar with a sink facing into
the family room.
Upstairs, the master suite has a
huge walk-in closet and skylit pri
vate bathroom with twin lavs, a
garden tub and enclosed water
closet. The other two bedrooms
share a bathroom that also has a
double vanity.
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