The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1888-03-04
sASSAFRAS AND SWEET GUM.
Beautiful Woods from the Old Home of Davy
Crockett-Interior Finish of an Indian
apOis Residence.

Everyone travelling on the College-avenue line
of street has doubtless noticed the large
two-story frame house the northwest corner
Of College and Lincoln avenues, with it's long
reach of porches suggesting the Southern
plantation homestead The house Is owned and
occupied by Mr. L. v. Boyle, and handsome as
it is exterorly. is from artistic point of view
much handsomer within. It is something of a
novelty in its interior finish, the woods used be-
ing unus usl to this part of the country. The
rooms all finished in natural woods-sassa-
fras. sweet gum and red oak being used, the
first named God in the greatest quantity, the
sweet gum and red oak as trimming. The doors
of sassafras wood, with rsd-oak panels. and
those of sassafras. with sweet-eum panels, pre-
sent striking and beautiful contras is.
SAssafras shows greater diversity in grain
than either oak or ash and che quaint
constant source of pleasure aud surprise to
noisseurs in woods. Parlors dinng-room, bed
rooms, kitchen, pantries and bathroom are nm
ished with equal care and in like STYLE The
window saSheS and frames and all the VAIN
scOting also of sas- afras. In addition to its
beautiful markings sassAfras wood possesses the
special advantages that it neither shrinks
swelis, and is even lighter in weight than white
pine. The sweet gum. because of it's variations
In grain, is handsomer than black walnut and
far superior for use in Panels as n contrast 10
lighter-colored woods. The corded red oak also
makes beautiful contrast to the sassafras.
The main hall and stairway of Nr. Boyle's
house show these natural woods, perhaps to
their greatest advantage. as they are, of
course. used there in greater quantity than in
other portions of the building
II is one of the best finished houses in the city,
though there is no attempt at anything gaudv,
the intent of the owner being to have sub
stantiai and comfortable home. This idea has
been admirably carried out by the builder, Mr..
5. j. Porter, of Upton, Ind, who has been
scrupuiously painstaking and honest in all his
work, the result being house that he may well
be proud OF as the product of his care and skill
The painting is all on the outside. and 10 the
work OF Curtis Bros. OF this city, while the
plumbing and natural gas fitting has been done
by Henry I. Hudson, also of this city.
The lumber used in the house is all furnished
by the firm of which Mr.. Boyle is the head
V. Boyle & Co., ana the manufactured lumber
Is all their own. L. V. Boyle IL Co. have
branches at 46 South Illinois street this city,
and at 135 North Halsted street, Chicago.
while their main place of manufacture Is at
Obion. Tenn They mako specially OF poplar,
but manufacture oak. ash, sweet gum, hickory,
sassafras, etc. Sassafras is a rare wood. and
they make attempt TO sell tt. though they
are in the region of Tennessee where it ID most
abundant Obion, Tenn, Is. BY the way, in
Davy Crockett's old county. from which that
most eccentric backwoodsman was elected to
Congress. Il is three hundred miles from Louis
vile, nine y-six miles north q Memphis, on the
Chesapeake g Ohio and Southwestern railway