Newark post. (Newark, Del.) 1910-1969, 1918-01-16
ATTRACTIVE. APART
MENT COMPLETED
To Be Home Of George w.
Rhodes, On Main Street

Finishing touches have been ad-
ded to the residential section of the
Rhodes building on Main Street,
where DR.. G. w. Rhodes will make
his future home. The modern apart
ment which occupies the entire
second floor of the building, has
developed into one Of the most
beautiful residences in Newark.
The apartment includes six rooms,
with bath and store room. The en-
tire suite is finished in hard wood |
-quartered oak and mahogany.
One enters the apartment from
door to the right of the store en-
trance, flight of stairs in natural
oak finish, leading to the hallway
and den, the latter featured by a
French window, which floods the
space with sunlight and leads to
the loggia overlooking the new
Delaware College campus and
Main Street. To the right, through
wide open doorway, is the living
room. Here the builder has ex-
pended his creates: skill with a
result that is satisfying indeed: a
combination of subdued elegance
that grows out of beautifully sell
ected wood, finished in soft, rest
full tones, quaint panelling and
ceiling beams, together with the
cherry, honey look, produced by a
| hospitable hearth and streams Of
sunshine, he has accomplished.
The room is 1SX15 feet, with two
wide French windows on the south
wall extending from floor to the
height of the doorways. A cozy
fireplace, built in pattern effect Of
velvet stretcher brick occupies the
center of the west wall, fianked on
either side by smaller easement
windows, whose glass panes are
quantity loaded in artistic pat
terms. Wainscoting Of oak, carved
in lines suggestive of the English
Gothic style of the exterior, eX-
tends to height of six feet. Beams
of the same wood are used in the
ceiling with charming effect, at in
tervals of perhaps two feet.
A second wide doorway leads to
the dining room, whose wide WIN
dows overlook the velvety sward of
the rear campus. Here as else
where in the apartment, deep, rich
. tones of dull mahogany dominate,
. with white used on the minor
woodwork. The wallis in artistic
rough finish are painted, below the
wide mahogany plate rail, rich
old blue, which combines charm
ingly with the dull tone of the
, wood. Mahogany shelves, on a
framework of white, with attrac-
tive built-in china closets on either
side, occupy one side of the room.
The kitchen, across the hallway,
finished in white enamel, suggests
the laboratory of the modern
housewife rather than the spacious
room of an earlier day. A pantry,
with shelves cleaning in sanitary
whiteness adjoins, and an ash pit,
and a dumb waiter are inconspic-
uous but convenient features of the
room.
Two spacious bedrooms, straight
lined and sunshiny, are separated
by an attractive bathroom, with
wainscoating of tile and blue fin
ished upper walls. The bed rooms
are daintily tinted in pink anC
buff. The doors throughout the
apartment are a beautiful dul
mahogany, inlaid with ebony anC
white holly. Spacious closets ant
a good sized storage room add tt
the convenience of the apartment
Hot water heat and indirect electric
lighting are used on the second
as we'll as the first floor of thu
building. An unobstructed view
of the new campus of Delaware
and distant lines of Iron Hill, ma!
be enjoyed from the loggia whicl
runs arcoss the front of the build
ing.