Floored with oak, the ball room has a terrazzo border. The floor of the lounge and the dining room is similar to that of the border of the ball room. Although the ceiling of the two latter rooms are flat, the angular effect is obtained there by the manner in which the boards are fitted.
Cherokee Terrace was named for one of the tribes of Indiana who inhabited this section of the state ere the white man dispossessed them; one of the three tribes: Ouachitas, Choctawas,
and Cherulises [sp].
Source: Monroe Morning World, June 29, 1931, A1.