LCFS HOME TOUR DESCRIPTIONS

DESCRIPTIONS OF HOMES TO GO WITH HOMETOUR.HN

1335 Ashland Hills Drive

The Tudor-style home that Danny and Tammy Lynn built five years ago was designed with entertaining in mind, so it is an eye-pleasing blend of elegance and warmth. Both the foyer and the dining room feature 18-foot ceilings. Upstairs, a bridge connecting two bedrooms and overlooking the foyer and dining room adds to the home's open feeling. The family also enjoys the basement den.

3120 Vail Drive

Rob and Beth Janet's home brings the best of the outside in. Built a year ago, the home's interesting architectural features include bowed windows in the living room and dining room. The living room windows let in spring and autumn colors from the lush wooded area near the Janet home. A focal point of the home is its foyer, which opens to a 20-foot ceiling and includes a handsome hardwood circular staircase and chandelier.

312 Bellevue

Fred and Jackie Hoelscher's 10-room home has special touches in each room, including a display of old Valentines from Mrs. Hoelscher's grandparents and Hoelscher's parents. In the home's main living areas, visitors will note the display of glass ball fire extinguishers formerly found in old schoolhouses. Two second-story windows show architect Henry Hunze's tribute to Germany, with each being fashioned after two different castles in his beloved homeland.

7A South Spanish

An imposing downtown structure constructed just after the turn of the century has a new purpose and a well-deserved new lease on life. Now A.L. Phillips has a stunning loft apartment that is testimony to the fact that yesterday's architecture is today's elegance. The old Green Warehouse was built around 1905 and housed the city's first water office. The building's design is Italianate style, with cornice work around the edge of the roof.

125 South Spanish

When Joe and Laurie Schneider purchased their stately red brick Victorian, they set out to preserve the feeling of the time period, around 1900. They also wanted to make the home lighter, brighter and more conducive to modern living. The Schneiders took the house back to the studs and walls and designed a home with today's comforts and yesterday's charm. They found some interesting surprises, including pine floors buried under layers of carpet, pocket doors between the hall and living room and the original ornamental fireplace grate.

Rivercrest

When Bill and Linda Davis completed their stately Georgian home along Illinois Route 3 near the Union County Wildlife Refuge in the summer of 1993, they didn't have to worry about landscaping. For the first several months of the home's life, the landscaping was an 18-foot-high dirt levee constructed to hold the Mississippi's floodwaters at bay. After the floodwaters went down, Linda Davis began her traditional Christmas decorating. This year, she has about a dozen Christmas trees. Each of the home's large, open rooms is lovingly decorated in the theme of "Christmas Magic."

The Nov. 27 home tour benefits the Lutheran Family and christian's Services of Southeast Missouri.