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MEDFORD, OREGON, SUNDAY. MAY 26, 1957
Tour to Benefit School
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Topsides, country home of Mr. and Mrs. Alfred S. V. Carpenter on Old Stage road, is one of five valley homes
which will be opened to visitors Tuesday) June 4, in order to raise funds for the kindergarten operated by Medford
Junior Service league. Pictured here is a corner of the living room of the home, constructed of exposed brick walls
end with a ceiling of massive beams. Oriental rugs and screens, hangings hand woven by East Indian craftsmen
' and art objects from many parts of the world impart a feeling of warm color and richness to this room. The home,
one of the largest in the valley, has many rooms on two stories and the extensive grounds and gardens include
terraces, a swimming pool, badminton courts and on outdoor fireplace with grills for cooking. The Carpenters
built the horn in 1926-27.
One of the newer homes to be included on the Junior Service league's house tour June 4 is that of Mr. and Mrs.
John C. Boyle at tfie corner of Ross lane and the Jacksonville-Central Point road. The Boyle home is of western' ;
ranch house architecture with English influence seen in the half stone, half wood exterior with shake roof. Th :
exterior wood is painted a grey-green in a shade which blends well with the large garden, and the same wood
and stone combination is repeated for the guest house erected near the home. The living room is dominated by a
large fireplace made from native stone brought originally from the old Jacksonville quarry, and the similar exterior '
stone was brought from a spot in the Umpqua region in Douglas county. The home has many interesting features,
one of which is a northeast porch and patio extending into the garden.
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The home of Mrs. Floyd Hart, Grant road, one of those to be open for the Junior
Service league's benefit tour, is a white colonial-type house with twin stairways open
ing off the front hall. Pictured here is a portion of the living room showing the large
red brick fireplace hung with antique brass, copper and iron objects dating back
to the colonial period in United States history. The home, owned by the Hart family
for more than 20 years, is located on the former Merritt property near Central Point
and in the olden days the county fairgrounds and race track adjoined the land. Still
earlier, the spot was said to be a favorite camping grounds for the Indians.
Completed only last summer and with the grounds still in the process of planting, th
home of Mr. and Mrs. R. A. Skinner on Hillside drive is the newest one included on
the coming Junior Service league tour. The red brick ranch type house commands
a fine view of the valley and surrounding hills and the interior is contemporary in
both design- and furnishings. Of particular beauty is the living room fireplace of
muted green and pink Georgia marble combined with redwood planking; louvred
doors divide the living and dining areas and the floor covering is a carpet of rose
beige over foam rubber. The dining room chandelier is shown at left.
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The Junior Service league house tour will raise funds for the kindergarten for hard-of-hearing children which the
league organized in February of 1953. Mrs. B. Brandt Bartels, league president, (at piano) first interested the.
group in the project since she is a graduate of Central Institute of the Deaf, Washington university, St. Louis, and
she spends a part of every school day at the kindergarten. Now attending the .school are (left to right) Tommy
Evensizer, Janet Bauder, Debra Frick, Jeanne DeVore, Koren Dalbee and Jimmy Gault; one more child has been
enrolled since picture was made. Mrs. Norman John (at right), the teacher, was trained at the Lutheran School
for the Deaf in Michigan; here children learn about sound vibration from piano. League members take turns "
assisting with children and Mrs. Donald E. Herried is shown at left.
Mr. and Mrs. Walter Graff's home, also on Hillside drive, was chosen for the tour because it is a "family" home
the Graffs have six sons. As the size of the family increased, the Graffs added rooms or rebuilt the home to meet
their changing needs. Shown here is the "family room" with big windows overlooking the valley and hills; it is
floored with rubber tile and furnished with comfortable couches and chairs, for lounging and reading or for
radio and television pleasure. Greg and Jeff, the two pre-schoolers, are shown here with a book, but a short time,
before they had beei down watching workmen at the swimming pool. For one expansion project the Graffs-connected
the guest house to the main building with a breeze way and converted it into living quarters for their oldest
son, Walter, senior in Medford High school.
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