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  Columns that are as wide as many of the surrounding trees flank the front door with its heavy beveled glass insets that have rippled under the weight of years. The spacious interior contains 18 rooms.
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  There are 6 bedrooms, 4 baths, 12 fireplaces, office, parlor, study, living, dining, kitchen, utility room, and third-floor ballroom in the 7500 square foot house.
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  The auxillary front entrance is access for an apartment on the west side of the house.
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  Tricia Mangrum stands at the front door. The door on the right is for the office.
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  A distinctive feture of a French chateau is the archer dormer.
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  The formal arched entrance is an elegant feature.
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  The front door tracery is enhanced with beveled glass.
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  The office is located at the end of the downstairs central hall.
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  Floors thoughout the building are terreza.
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  The swinging doors at the end of this hall were the entrance to an operating room.
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  Antique gas lanterns frame the front door.
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  The French doors lead to the screen porch.
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  The hipped roof is a distinguishing feature of the bungalow style which is particularly appropriate for hot climates, since warm air rises up into the high roof and leaves the rooms below cooler.
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  The original concrete porch flooring was replaced with pine wood by Ron Berthelot.
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  One or one-and-a-half-story Craftsman houses are called bungalows. The Berthelot bungalow exemplifies the style with its wide, deep front porch, supported by thick, simple columns which sit on brick pedestals.
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  The Craftsman (or Arts and Crafts) movement in America developed as a reaction against the machine-made ornamental excess of the Victorian era. This was a back-to-nature movement, reflecting a desire to return to simpler times when craftsmen worked with their hands and took pride in detail. Structural detail and the use of good materials were prized over applied ornamentation. The bungalow has its roots in California, where this style was well suited to the warm climate. It then spread across the country to become one of the most common middle-class designs from 1910 to the 1930's.
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  The bungalow interior, both in plan and detail, was direct and functional. The front door opens directly into the living room which in turn connects to the dining area. The walls and ceilings are the original stucco. The Berthelot's removed the 1950's celetex tile which raised the ceiling nearly two inches and accentuated the picture molding. Standing sentinel is a heavy timber folk art carving believed to an old St. Nicholas. Dolly spotted this treasure in 1999 under a table at an annual Lion's Club flea market in Jay, N. Y., in the Adirondacks and she continues to unravel its mysterious heritage.
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  The stair-step kitchen cabinets act as a room divider and provide a view through to the living area.
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  After 13 years of wrestling with a problem kitchen, a late night Eureka led to an entire transformation. The old pine glass-front cupboards had originally flanked the dining entry to the kitchen. The cabinets blocked views and forced foot traffic right through the work area. The couple wanted to keep these antique built-ins (which Ron had refinished), but needed more counter space. Suddenly Dolly realized those two cabinets could shift over to the only solid dining area wall, be pushed together, and solve several problems. The rest was easy.
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  The French door in the dining room leads to the screened porch and gives a clear dining view of Bayou Texar. The extended new white and black tiled counters multiplied the kitchen work space, provided a serving area, and permitted a handy little cookbook nook, all in a very small space.
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  Visible outside the sunny dining area are deep rafters, which are typical of bungalows, craftsman architecture, and southern seaside cottages, all suggested by this renovated and restored 1928 home. To maximize views, shutters are the only dressing on any windows. These were salvaged from a garage sale. The 1950's turquoise and black dinette was grabbed at a flea market in Pace, Florida, just north of Pensacola.
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  By lowering the pine porch floor and adding a step down, Ron enhanced spaciousness. The original beveled ceiling is echoed in new kitchen cabinets. Open space atop the cabinets is ideal to display serving pieces or fun collectibles, such as an antique Donald Duck, a tin top, and a handmade wooden bus.
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  Wire-mesh screen was used on windows and doors in the Victorian era, but it was the Craftsman bungalow style that introduced the screen porch to the American home. Screen porches served to blur the distinction between outside and interior space and allowed the benefits of fresh air to be enjoyed without the annoyance of insects.
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  The screen porch provides a large exterior living area on the south and west side of the Berthelot bungalow.
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  The half acre, 150 x 125 foot lot still benefits from the masterful gardening of the Larcom family who owned the home for decades. The Berthelots are particularly indebted to camellia expert Franklin B. Larcom whose legacy blooms faithfully each winter and spring.
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  The 28 foot banquet table holds a multiselection of foods, including 15 - 20 salads, two meat dishes, four vegetables, as well as blueberry muffins and fried biscuits.
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  This is a view of the home across the street from the driveway.
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  This dining room is on the south side of the central hall.
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  The dining room is furnished like a hunting lodge.
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  A double glass door leads from the backyard into the Florida Room.
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  The mudroom entrance is on the far left, under the awning.
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  The kitchen door is on the right of the photograph.
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  The dining room is situated on the northwest corner of the first floor.
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  The elaborate dining room furniture was purchased from Argentina. There are scars from shotgun pellets in several of the seats - remnants of a coup attempt.
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  The door in the breakfast nook opens onto the back garden.
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  The family room opens onto the screened porch.
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  Some of the doors echo the distinctive arches of the front porch.
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  The Victorian house is in the process of being converted from an office into a residence. The design of the gingerbread coumn brackets is art nouveau, a style of decoration developed in France at the end of the 19th century characterized by flowing lines and curving organic shapes.
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  The structure has a large central hall. Four living spaces or parlors open onto the hall.
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  The west front parlor has a fireplace on the interior wall.
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  Another living room/parlor can be seen through the arch in the west front parlor.
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  The arch separates the living areas on the west side of the house.
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  The detail shows the pocket door hidden in the archway.
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  The bay window is on the west wall of the house in the front parlor. The pocket door pictured above is on the right of this frame.
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  The design of the major rooms is forthright and functional. The living room is directly connected to the dining room.
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  Rough and irregular brickwork is distinctive of the craftsman style. Clinker-bricks were originally discarded because they were discolored or distorted. Around 1920, they were discovered by Craftsman architects to be usable, distinctive and charming! The name "clinker-brick" comes from the sound that they would make when banged together, being heavier than regular bricks. Click here to see other examples of clinker bricks.
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  The bungalow stretched to the out-of-doors. Glass doors lead to the swimming pool area.
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  The beveled glass at the entrance and over some of the large bay windows in the house are all original. The front door was originally beveled glass but it was destroyed during an "Animal House" party when aviators rented the house in the 1990s.
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  Stucco is the exterior finish of the home.
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  A circular staircase connects the guest quarters to the second floor residence.
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  The risers are wood that match the upstairs flooring material.
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  The kitchen is located on the west side of the second floor. It features a catering kitchen and wine cooler.
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  The appliances were imported from France.
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  There are no columns to impede the view in the upstairs living area.
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  The 24 foot ceilings give the room a spacious, open feeling.
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  The building complex consists of four dwelling units. The two front units are designed for combination office and residential use.
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  In this view to the west of the Trawick building, the neighboring structure across the street is located to the north. Jamie's Restaurant has a large parking lot on the west side.
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  The door with stained glass was installed by Thorpe, the homeowner in the 1970's. The etched glass central figure is encased by a stained glass frame.
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  The elaborate stained glass doors lead out onto the back porch.
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  The door glass was etched with a fleur de lis motif to show the French heritage of Lucy Reser. The drawing on the right wall is entitled "Donkey" and was done by a friend of Lucy's who is an artist exhibiting in NYC and Washington, D.C.
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  The front door of the Warner home was improted from an 18th century German church. The door bell is a replica of a ship's bell from the Titanic.
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  The etched glass double doors lead out onto the back patio. They were imported from a cafe in Paris.
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  The front of the home faces Petersen Point Road.
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  The front door leads to Windrose Circle on the west side of the home.