Does this house look familiar? Here is how it looks now!
Here is how the house looked in 1967 -- there is more original detail visible:
Sunday, March 20, 2011
The Aladdin Villa on Williams Boulevard
There is a Mediterranean style home at 957 Willaims Boulevard. It was built in 1919, shortly after this area was opened up for private homes. The architect was not local. In fact the name of the actual architect is unknown. The house was ordered out of a catalog --
Does this house look familiar? Here is how it looks now!
Here is how the house looked in 1967 -- there is more original detail visible:
Does this house look familiar? Here is how it looks now!
Here is how the house looked in 1967 -- there is more original detail visible:
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Thanks for another interesting post. I don't often think of housed that large being available through a catalog.
My family lives in the original Aladdin Villa in Bay City, MI. The most significant difference between this Springfield, IL house and ours is the windows. Our home has a total of six (five in the sunroom alone) large glass arches as seen in the early catalog rendering. We also have French style windows under the glass arches, rather than double-hung squares.
I've seen photos of our home from the 1960's and like this Springfield Villa it had large trellises on the front of the house. I suspect those may have been an option available for order.
My boyfriend lives there now!! It's a beautiful house. And the basement scares me!! but it's beautiful
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