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A split-level sleight-of-hand Bargains To Be Found! Priced from the low $20's! (over 800 sold) Adult Living At It Best Kgi'1 Beautiful Award-Winning Complex in Central Pinellas I MOTH i I pa IMM- I LAKESIDE APARTMENTS GARDENSIDE APARTMENTS RECREATION AMENITIES BUS SERVICE IN SEMINOLE CLOSE TO SEMINOLE MALL BEAUTIFULLY LANDSCAPED REASONABLE FINANCING LOVELY REGAL OAK TREES (WE ALSO ACCEPT CASH!) SPACIOUS GROUNDS 5 MINUTES TO BEACHES LARGE LAKES ON SITE By CURTIS RIST This Old Houte magazin mm. made their debut on U.S. television Feb. 9, 1964; and Roger Maris, who, in 1961, hit 61 home runs as a New York Yankee and broke a Major League Baseball record of 60 set in 1927. For first-day cancellations, affix the stamps to envelopes, address the envelopes, place them in a larger envelope and mail to Celebrate the Century 1960s Stamp, Postmaster, P.O.

Box 7000, Green Bay, WI 54307-7000. Requests must be postmarked by Oct 17. Landscape architect U.S.Potl5cvic Frederick Law Olmsted, a founder of American landscape architecture, will be honored Sunday in Boston, when a new 33-cent commemorative stamp is issued. The dedication will take place in conjunction with the annual meeting and 100th anniversary of the American Society of Landscape Architects. The stamp goes on sale nationwide Monday.

Olmsted began his career in 1858, when the plan he created with his partner Calvert Vaux was chosen as the design for New York City's Central Park. His other best-known work includes the U.S. Capitol grounds in Washington, D.C., and the Biltmore Estate nearAsheville.N.C. The stamp is a montage that includes his portrait by John Singer Sargent, a photograph of Central Park and two architectural plans. For first-day cancellations, send to Frederick Law Olmsted Commemorative Stamp, Postmaster, 25 Dorchester Boston, MA 02205-9991.

Orders must be postmarked by Oct 12. Stamp club meetings LARGO COLLECTORS CLUB, third Thursday, 7:15 p.m., 455 Missouri Ave. (building to rear of Prince of Peace Lutheran Church), Largo. MANATEE STAMP CLUB, second Tuesday, 7 p.m., Central Library, 1301 Bar-carrota Bradenton. ST.

PETERSBURG STAMP CLUB, Wednesday, 7:30 p.m., Trinity Lutheran Church, 401 Fifth St. St. Petersburg. Phone (727) 525-2699. The Woodstock festival of 1969 is one of the Celebrate the Century stamps commemorating the 1960s that will be dedicated Friday in Green Bay, Wis.

The sheet of 15 stamps goes on sale nationwide the same day. The Century program honors the most significant people, places and trends of each decade of the 20th century. In 1969, the Woodstock Music and Art Fair in Bethel, N.Y., drew more than 450,000 people to an open field to frolic and revel in the music of such as Jimi Hendrix, Santana, the Grateful Dead and Janisjoplin. The 33-cent Woodstock stamp features a symbolic sketch of a peace dove on a guitar. The other stamps on the sheet are Star Trek, the television space series that made its debut in 1966; the Green Bay Packers professional football team, which won five National Football League championships between 1961 and 1967 and the first two Super Bowl games; Man Walks on the Moon, which commemorates the landing of the lunar module Eagle on the moon July 20, 1969; "I Have a Dream," the historic speech that Dr.

Martin Luther King delivered to 250,000 supporters in Washington, D.C., on Aug. 28, 1963; the Integrated Circuit which was made available commercially in 1961 and revolutionized the computer industry; Barbie Doll, which was introduced in 1959 and, by 1963, had reached sales of 5-million; Ford Mustang, which was introduced in April 1964, and about 22,000 orders were taken the first day; the Vietnam War, the longest military conflict in U.S. history; Peace Symbol, adopted by antiwar protesters in the 1960s and eventually a universal sign of peace and love; Super Bowl the first championship game between the American Football League and the Na-tiona Football League on Jan. 15, 1967; Lasers, which were first operated in 1960; the Beatles, who im 's-fl q(D)900 From I' JJ "Klud" iff Landscaped Homeslte Located only 2 minutes from 1-75 and Ellenton Outlet Mall Quick access to Skyway, St. Pete, Bradenton, and Sarasota HI 941.729.3900 TOLL FREE 877.628.8500 MODELS OPEN DAILY 10-5 SUNDAY 1-5 COINS OVER 200,000 SQ.

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These included thick, architectural-grade asphalt roof shingles, red cedar clapboards with a 6-inch exposure, a porch deck of tongue-and-groove Philippine mahogany and large vinyl-clad wood windows to replace the inefficient all-aluminum ones. The result, Siegel says, "is a house that looks up-to-date, without being too overdone for the neighborhood." "The porch was the key," Siegel adds. "It gave the house the architectural focal point that it lacked." At first, they wanted to make it 8 feet wide, but zoning requirements limited it to 5 feet, broad enough to hold some chairs. Nonetheless, Mary Ellen's reaction to this double-columned verandah was immediate. "When the plans were unrolled in front of me for the first time, I just thought, she says.

"I had no idea it could look like this." Adding two doghouse dormers counteracted the post-World War II drabness of the facade and livened up the new bedroom with 5-foot-wide alcoves. The alcoves provide sunny nooks big enough for a desk under one window and a low dresser under another. "Both inside and out, the dormers add a warmth and a friendliness to the house that was completely missing from the original," Siegel says. While the Stokeses continued to live in the house, builder Paul Cucco and the crew of the Hunterdon Builders ripped off and rebuilt the roof over the wing, re-sided and refenestrated the entire house and added 10 feet to the chimney using brick salvaged from the facade. The ceiling joists upstairs were 2-by-8s, not beefy enough to support the new floor, so Cucco bolted new 2-by-10s to the old ones.

Unfortunately, the old shingles were asbestos-reinforced cement They had to be placed in a plastic-lined Dumpster and trucked to a hazardous-waste landfill. Cucco's crew wrapped up the work in four months, including a gut remodel of the existing bathrooms. Total project cost: $160,000. "I still can't believe how nice it looks when I drive up to it" Mary Ellen says. Each night, when the weather is good, she and her husband sit on the porch swing out front The whole family appreciates the extra room inside, especially the third bathroom, and her daughters love having their own rooms, each decorated with identical pictures of Ricky Martin.

"It's funny," Mary Ellen says. "Now that they have their own space, I always find them in each other's rooms. Go figure!" 1999 Time Publishing Ventures Inc. TimM itaff writer Priced From $999 QSk SO. YD.

Import tram Spain $429 I SQ.FT. $439 I SQ.FT. Italian White Body 13x13 While hunting for a home in the early 1990s, Mary Ellen Stokes and her husband, Kevin, realized they had distinctly different ideas of what they wanted. "I always imagined living in a center-hall Colonial," Mary Ellen says, but Kevin focused on what they could afford. He finally convinced her that a modest split-level in New Providence, would suit them better.

"The only thing I liked was the cost," says Mary Ellen of the ungainly design, "but my husband kept saying we had to look beyond what it was and dream about what it could become." Despite the house's outdated appearance, Mary Ellen quickly came to appreciate its big closets and four bedrooms (they have four children, the youngest only a year old), and in the last six years they made pleasing improvements, a new kitchen with oak cabinets, a deck out back and wood floors in rooms that had been carpeted. What finally pushed them to completely overhaul the house's look was their two oldest daughters, Meghan, 15, and Erin, 13, who made it clear from their squabbling that they had had enough of sharing the same upstairs bedroom. The Stokeses called architects Janet and Brian Siegel of nearby Chatham and asked them to add a fifth bedroom and third bathroom within the existing footprint. "I also said something vague about wishing I had a front porch," Mary Ellen recalls. In the realm of house styles, the split-level ranks as one of the least loved.

The form was born out of the idea that families needed to have several different living areas set apart from one another on distinct separate levels. In the Stokeses' house that meant that the family room lies downstairs next to the garage, with the dining and living rooms and kitchen located a half flight up, and the bedrooms up yet another half flight "It means you're always walking up or down steps to get anywhere," Brian Siegel says. In addition, the Stokeses' house like most houses of its kind had been saddled with a shallow roof pitch (creating a squashed-down look), small windows and widely spaced courses of rough sidewall shingles that made everything look out of proportion. "Nobody would call these features charming," Siegel says. Searching for a better model, Brian Siegel thumbed Field Guide to American Houses by Virginia and Lee McAlester (Random House, $24.95) and found one that was popular at the turn of the last century.

It was a gable front-and-wing farmhouse with a front porch spanning the length of the wing. It wasn't a split-level, but they thought that the lines of the Stokeses' house could be tweaked into a close resemblance. To that end, they raised the roof line over Natural Colors 16x16 16X16 NATURAL STONE CERAMIC TILE ELEGANT GLOSS CERAMIC TILE ITALIAN STONE CERAMIC TILE 990 990 Rustic Stone 13x13 Imported From Spain 13x13 Marazzi Travertine 12x12 SQ. FT. SQ.

FT. SQ. FT. mi 1 -'i (it, Uu Ub il FRONT I I The British Royal Mint has struck four coins for the channel island of Alderney, marking the total eclipse of the sun that occurred on Aug. 11.

Scientists regarded Alderney as one of the best places to observe the phenomenon. The reverse design of the 2 coins, struck in 22 karat gold (916.7 au) and sterling (.925 ag), shows an eclipsed sun above a landmark church, St Anne's. A pair of gannets, roosting because they think that night has fallen, appear in the foreground. The 5 coins, struck in sterling silver and cupro-nickel, depict the path of the moon as it passes across the face of the sun and indicates the shadow it would cast across southern England and Alderney. The solar segments of the design are screen printed in yellow.

The obverses depict Queen Elizabeth II. The 2 gold proof, which was limited to 100 pieces and already has sold out measures 38.61 millimeters in diameter, weighs 47.54 grams and costs $1,295. The 2 silver proof has a mintage of 10,000, measures 38.61 millimeters, weighs 28.28 grams and costs $49.95. The 5 silver proof is limited to 10,000, measures 38.61 millimeters, weighs 28.28 grams and costs $54.95. The 5 brilliant uncirculated cupro-nickel measures 38.61 millimeters, weighs 28.28 grams, comes in a presentation folder and costs $19.95.

Add $4.95 postage and handling per order. Address inquiries and orders to the British Royal Mint Cheyenne, WY 82008-0031; phone (800) 221-1215. Coin club meetings LARGO COIN CLUB, third Wednesday, 7:15 p.m., Largo Library, 351 East Bay Drive, Largo. MANATEE COIN CLUB, third Tuesday, 7:30 p.m.. College Park Club, 561 2 26th St.

Bradenton; phone 756-5571. ST. PETERSBURG COIN CLUB, third Monday (beginning Nov. 16), 7 p.m., Christ Lutheran Church, 3451 30th Ave. N.

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