1964 photos: Four-story loggia is home's highlight
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In 1964, the home of Mr. and Mrs. Arthur Costello was photographed for the Tucson Citizen home section. The house's design was inspired by a magazine picturing a similar house in the Florida Keys. While that home used screens, the Costellos used glass for floor-to-ceiling windows.
1964 photos: Loggia highlights Santo Tomas home
- Bill Sears / Tucson Citizen
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The most dramatic room in the Costello home is the loggia, which has floor-to-ceilinjg windows to the east overlooking the pool and patio and framed in the distance by the Santa Rita mountains. The huge circular Mexican fireplace is of concrete and suspended from the ceiling is an iron hood.
1964 photos: Loggia highlights Santo Tomas home
- Bill Sears / Tucson Citizen
- Updated
Family heirlooms are used in this sitting room on the second level of the home and approached by a little stairway from the foyer below. An oil portrait of Mrs. Costello's grandfather, John Alexander Tyler, hangs above an antique buffet. He was the son of John Tyler, tenth president of the United States.
1964 photos: Loggia highlights Santo Tomas home
- Bill Sears / Tucson Citizen
- Updated
The view overlooking the swimming pool gives the view of the surrounding valley with the Santa Ritas beyond. Flagstone borders the pool and an ornamental tile depicting a street in Mexico is inset into the concrete block patio wall and serves as a focal point for the little circular brick terrace.
1964 photos: Loggia highlights Santo Tomas home
- Bill Sears / Tucson Citizen
- Updated
This gallery partly spans the west side of the house on the fourth level. The master bedroom is seen at the end and door to the right opens into the guest bedroom. Coats of arms of the families are framed on the wall to the right as are pictures of Mrs. Costello's grandmother's home on Long Island. Many of the antiques used in the present house came from that home. Louvered blinds provide sun control on this side of the house.
1964 photos: Loggia highlights Santo Tomas home
- Bill Sears / Tucson Citizen
The most dramatic room in the Costello home is the loggia, which has floor-to-ceilinjg windows to the east overlooking the pool and patio and framed in the distance by the Santa Rita mountains. The huge circular Mexican fireplace is of concrete and suspended from the ceiling is an iron hood.
1964 photos: Loggia highlights Santo Tomas home
- Bill Sears / Tucson Citizen
Family heirlooms are used in this sitting room on the second level of the home and approached by a little stairway from the foyer below. An oil portrait of Mrs. Costello's grandfather, John Alexander Tyler, hangs above an antique buffet. He was the son of John Tyler, tenth president of the United States.
1964 photos: Loggia highlights Santo Tomas home
- Bill Sears / Tucson Citizen
A circular fireplace is shown at one end of the den. Carpeting here is green and draperies in off-white. The den is at one end of the hall which goes between the loggia, dining room and kitchen.
1964 photos: Loggia highlights Santo Tomas home
- Bill Sears / Tucson Citizen
The view overlooking the swimming pool gives the view of the surrounding valley with the Santa Ritas beyond. Flagstone borders the pool and an ornamental tile depicting a street in Mexico is inset into the concrete block patio wall and serves as a focal point for the little circular brick terrace.
1964 photos: Loggia highlights Santo Tomas home
- Bill Sears / Tucson Citizen
Antique needlepoints which have been framed grace the wall over this antique mahogany buffet in the dining room. Dining table is mahogany and rush-seated chairs are late 17th century.
1964 photos: Loggia highlights Santo Tomas home
- Bill Sears / Tucson Citizen
This gallery partly spans the west side of the house on the fourth level. The master bedroom is seen at the end and door to the right opens into the guest bedroom. Coats of arms of the families are framed on the wall to the right as are pictures of Mrs. Costello's grandmother's home on Long Island. Many of the antiques used in the present house came from that home. Louvered blinds provide sun control on this side of the house.
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