1962 Tucson home photos: Additions don't look added on
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The growing Fishburn family meant making a decision to move or enlarge their home. They chose to make changes to their home and the Tucson Citizen photographed the results in 1962.
1962 Tucson home photos: Additions don't look added on
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Dark green shutters and trim against the white house, key to the interior's dominant color. Gardenias, camellias, geraniums and rubber plants flourish in a flower bed in front of the floor-to-ceiling window of the living room. Shrubs at right and bright zinnias at left border the thick green lawn of the Fishburns' corner lot. Their home does not have an "added on" look.
1962 Tucson home photos: Additions don't look added on
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A cathedral, open-beam ceiling accents the spaciousness of the combination family room, playroom and guest room of Mr. and Mrs. Wainright Fishburn's home. Large hooked rugs can easily be rolled up when daughter Marsha, 14, throws a party for dance-loving teen-agers. And there is plenty of room for her brothers' electric train. The 18-32 foot room was added to their home last year and has become a center of activities for the busy family.
1962 Tucson home photos: Additions don't look added on
Updated
Continuing the combined early American and colonial periods furnishing the Fishburn home is the Duncan Phyfe dining set. Milk glass candelabras, bowl and pieces on the hutch add bright touches to the dining room.
1962 Tucson home photos: Additions don't look added on
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Wainright, 8, and Randy, 6, play monopoly in the big playroom. The boys keep their toys in the window boxes at right and keep the woodpile high in the winter when the family uses the fireplace often. The gun above the mantle belonged to Mrs. Fishburn's father. Antique bellows and old-fashioned bean pot carry through the early American motif.
1962 Tucson home photos: Additions don't look added on
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Marsha chose pink for the interior of her room. Delicate daisies against a symmetrical background are papered on the north wall; paper, matching the background, covers the other walls. The shirts on the bedspread of her canopy bed are graduating shades of pink; the carpet is the deepest tone. To offset the pastel color, her bookcase, desk and doors are painted white.
1962 Tucson home photos: Additions don't look added on
Updated
Double doors to the left of the fireplace shot off the activity room, but identical paneling provides continuity to the east wall of the living room. A split-leaf philodendron in colorful pottery and ornaments on the mantle add contrast to the white paneling. The secretary in the foreground is one of the first pieces of furniture the couple bought.
1962 Tucson home photos: Additions don't look added on
Updated
1962 Tucson home photos: Additions don't look added on
Updated
Continuing the combined early American and colonial periods furnishing the Fishburn home is the Duncan Phyfe dining set. The kitchen is through the door on the far wall.
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