GALLERY OF PHOTOS — click a thumbnail for a larger version    Twin Gables
	From 1952 when we arrived in Richwood, we lived in rented houses.  After ten years, we decided it was time to build a home of our own.  My father secured the services of a contractor he knew, an older gentleman named Leslie Adams who lived in neighboring Marion County, and we began deciding what kind of a house we wanted. We needed two bedrooms plus a spare.  My mother, tired of running up and down the stairs in our current residence between the basement laundry and the second-floor bedrooms, wanted all the rooms on one level.  We found the ranch-style floor plan below in a magazine and decided that it fit the bill.  (Les Adams liked it so much that he afterwards built himself a house with the same layout.) (TEXT CONTINUED BELOW) However, we didn't much care for the modernistic exterior.  We preferred a more traditional look with wood siding and columns and shutters and a steeper-pitched roof for our snowy winters.  Also, the rooms on the plan were somewhat smaller than we would have liked.