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Thomas E. Thiel, Owner

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This home was designed by Arthur L. Pillsbury in 1912 for Louis Eddy.  Louis Eddy was the head of the Louis Eddy Advertising Agency in Bloomington and purchased the Wakefield Medicine Company (he was a grandson of the founder). Six other houses on this block of Monroe are known to have been designed by A.L. Pillsbury. 

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The main body of the house has a pleasing symmetrical arrangement of windows and doors common to the Colonial Revival style. The glass doors under arches on either side of the front door add a refined variation from the usual double hung windows. 

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You enter through a central hall between the dining area and living room, which is a common feature of Colonial style homes. When initially designed, the dining room was walled off from the kitchen area, as you will see in the original plans. The open concept plan introduced by the present owner eliminates the tiny kitchen, cold room, butler’s pantry and food pantry that were necessary to the work of cooking and serving food when servants were the only occupants of the kitchen. Now it is the center of entertaining and dining in the home.

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The living room has been slightly altered. Originally, the room had two doors into the sunroom. Now, built-in bookcases fill the wall on the north side of the fireplace. The proportions of both rooms are generous for accommodating the large social gatherings common to the period when the home was built.  

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Take the front hall stairs up to the second floor to view the four bedrooms and two bathrooms on the second level. A Jack and Jill bath is between two smaller rooms and a larger bath on the landing serves the other two bedrooms. Note the sinks provided in the bedrooms.

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Exit the second floor down the kitchen (servant) stairs to exit out the back door.