Property of Mr. and Mrs. Templeton | Highland Park, Illinois | Architect L. Morgan Yost | Photos Nowell Ward

For those who don't hold with extreme modernists yet aren't quite satisfied with tradition for tradition's sake, this gray clapboard house, with its spanking white trim, dark-green shutters, nostalgic flavor of Early American farmhouses, should have a definite appeal. The oversize trellis, flanking the projecting stair hall at the entrance, adds a certain zest to the street elevation and is in keeping with the clean cut restraint found both indoors and out. Notice the living-room fireplace, almost devoid of detail, yet adding welcome contrast to the scalloped bookcases. Lime green on walls of this room combines handsomely with the rose, green and white floral chintz of the draperies. All the woodwork has been left natural birch. Upstairs, a light, minimum stair hall leads directly to the bedrooms, nursery, bath, and linen closet.