Evening Star Newspaper, November 29, 1924, Page 17

E‘b TATE. . REAL THE l"\'léNlN(i STAR, WASHINGTON ATTURDAY. NOVEMBER 29, 1924. BETTER HOMES DRIVE HOUSE PLANS FOR HOME PLANNERS NOW IN FOURTH YEAR Interest in Move to Improve Conditions of Family Life Grows—Much Work Remains to Be Accomplished. BY DR. JAMES FORD wellbeing. Its steady Improvefment ©f Harvard University, Executive |15, at the same time, a test of our Director, Better Homes in America, | ClVilization and of our ideals. The Better Homes in America movement »t wirich | provides a channel through which dent, is an | men and women In each community having no | can encourage the building, orna- commercial conne s, operating in | menting and owning.of private homes its fourth year for the public service, | that lighten the burden of house- with the following definite ends in keeping. We need homes in which view home life can reach its finest levels 1. To and in which can be reared happy standards ildren and upright citizens. furnishin commerd participation in Better Homes demonstration and in the other work of the movement to the Amer- ican people.” Cltes Shortage of Homes. Secretary of Commerce Hoover, in the foreword to the Better Homes Guidebook, points out that homes vitally and directly affect the char- acter and that the highest civiliz tions have been bullt by home-loving peoples, not nomads. In the same foreword Mr. Hoover points out the present shortage of American homes, adding: “A great need is apparent for well directed, concerted efforts to work out a solution from the point of view of the family with the small income, that has to make | both ends meet. | “The co-operation of the citizens of | each community in Better Homes | Demonstrations has been found suc- | cessful and agreed upon by leading | organizations representing millions of men and women as a practical way | of meeting this need, and of present- {ing the result of study to the public in a way that can readllly be grasped. I, therefore, have no hesitation in urging such co-operation as an out- standing form of public service. From this movement there should develop steadiness of character, high ideals of | family life, civic pride and respansi- bility” throughout our land.” The beard of directors of Better| Homes in America includes Miss | | Grace Abbott, chlet of the Children’s | Bureau of the Department of Labor; | John Barber, fellow of the American | Institute of Architects, and Edwin H. | Brown, president of the Architects’| Small House Service Bureau; Dr. John | M. Gries, chlef of the division of | building and housing of the Bureau| of Standards; Christian Herter, | i . 300 com. | €ditor and publisher of The Independ- | e aaaveln : s ent; Mrs. William Brown Meloney, | munities toole pach, and in 1934 thore| oovls ioriihe Délineator and formexs | Inore than e WD | ly in active charge of the movement; | SLE R SO S John D. Sherman, president of | Federation of Women's { Mr: eneral I Mr. George W. Wilder, the Clubs, and York publisher. New! ctter Homes in Ameri Secretary Hoover is pre educational movem put knowledge of high in house bullding, home | and equipment and home | in the reach of all citizens. encourage the building of sound, attractive, economical single- family houses in which private home lif may be possible; to encourage the reconditioning and remodeling of old houses and to encourage thrift for home ownership. 3. To encourpze generalg study of the housing problem and of problems of family life, to demonstrate each Year the best types of. house con- truction, home furnishing and labor- =aving devices for homes which are Within the reach of famil:es of lim ited means. 1 encourage sensible propriate furnishing for th the elimination of need «lens in houseke . 5. To encourag i ruction in home economics and home life in the public schools and wherever advis- able the construction of school p tice cott es through which the gi and women of the unity Teccive continuous ‘ways of n making household activities 6. To promote the improvement Ufl | and ap- home s bur- | house lots, yards and neighborhoods. 7. To extend knowledge of the ways and means of making home life more attractive and happier through the development of heme music, home | home librar: play, home art and special study and | ind to encour discussion of the problem of char- acter-building in_the h, Head- ton auarters are in Wash Movement Js Growing. ppointed arters and local ar i onstration, being supporte nd helped by the aational organization in every sible man he first year | Local chairmen matio J co- | pos- 1,500 cities This dent Coo through cording to Presi- ‘provides a channel| h men and women in munity can encour ornamenting and homes Leaders in Council, as already st of the advisory | {ncludes In addition | Secretary of Commerce Hoover, Se | retary of Labor Davis, Secretary of | | the Interior Work, Julius . Barnes, | former pre “‘ant of the Chamber of Com of the United State Katherine Blunt, president of American Home conomie: n; Dr. Hugh C, Cummin; ieral of the United | tn Service; Livingston Farrand,| tent of Cornell University, and | president of the American Child alth Associatlon; Mrs. Lena Lake “orrest, former president of the Na- ional Fede: fon of B ness (Continued on Eighteenth Page.) President | forth, is Coolidge. chairman which the chairma th s follows; observed counc e to Mr. Hoov have freguen $ustructive and ing force which | e B ¢ Homez in America move- ment is contribnting to our naticnal ‘e, and 1 am mc than well | pleased with the rec has just taken place rection, by which it ndependent and subs tion, and 1 c n to re ory council “The Ameri n of our : surzcon | Public | He; founda- | individual | SMALL CASH These houses are located in a community of newly built homes, occupied by their owners. You will be assured of the upkeep and general good appearance of your neighborhood, and the resulting increased val- ue to the property. Features: Tapestry brick Three porches (one sleep- ing porch) Large living room open- ing into Dining room Enameled kitchen equip- ment Hardwood Floors Two large bedrooms Large tiled bath Cellar under entire house MRS | dining room and from the dining | through { position of the hal | the greatest variety of practical and { but so that its quarters, the living rooms PAYMENT housework can be done with no un- necessary exertion. If there Is to be no maid the bedroom provided for her may be used for a child's playroom or a sewing room. The door opening from this roomt to the kitchen could be closed and the partition which is now between the closet of this room and the hall could be done away with, sleeping unit of the house. A large pantry provides abundance of shelf room for dishes used in the dining room and the kitchen dresser Ly the side of the sink, with fts double drain board, gives plenty of | space for the kitchen utensils. If a placed on the inner wall of tie kitch- en next to the stairway leading to the basement. Beneath the kitchen window is ample space for a maid's dining table. This house can be built of metal lath and stucco or hollow tilp and concrete. It is 62 feet by 41 feet, and a lot of at least 75-foot frontage would be most appropriate. The front terrace with its railing of wood or Hollow Tile and Concrete Bungalow - 3TDToom- Tz Raising the Rocf for Better Lines Provides More Room. If Wanted. America is woefully underbullt Thousands and thousands of homes must be created in the next few years | and this means that many prospective homd owners must absorb a liberal education on the subject of house de- | slgn and construction if these new houses are to be artistic, practicable and satisfactory. 1t is not an easy matter to build a home today, but it is so necessary that many will be bullt, casy or not. In the hope that we may be abl glve real help to our readers, w presenting this beautifully desigr house with a practical and convenie floor plan What the architect had mind when designing this house was to | that gives: privacy. The bed- make a living and a dining room that | ms can be shut away from the land bath a completely separated | Nowadays there are many ways of would look out over the garden. If | body of the house by merely |from the rest of the house and are | Introducing color on the outside of this house were built on the outskirts | closing a door. Each bedroom has | complete in every detail, so that the |a concrete or stucco house that make | Institute, Chicago. of a city or small town the chances it much more attractive than the cold are that the garden would be at the | blue tone of the natural concrete. Va- M. U. ADDS EQUIPMENT | {5 i inea s | sociation of Real te Boards to FOR REAL ESTATE COURSE | Three distinct suites contribute to the comfort of this floor plan, and a living room flooded with light from three exposures will provide a rare delight. vants’ quarters, each convenfently | amplo light and closet room, and wall | stone forms an outdoor sitting room, space to accommodate large articles |or it can be treated something like a of furniture | Spanish patio—that is, with a tiny The kitchen and the mald’s room |fountain or decorative plants in jars, S oach separated from the othe The new insti- back of the house; therefore, the main riowa methods! have hesn| Aiusaverad the National As- conduct a national ho tudy course living rooms should have large win- of mixing color with concrete and also dows facing the garden and provide making the whole house entirely some way of entering the garden | weatherproof, so that it is impossible easily. | in real estate, is drawing its students | ¢, tha inner. walls to be damaged by We have placed the Iliving room | from men already In the business| giaining from dampness. Besides the somewhat as a wing, glving It light and from men preparing to enter it.|metnod of mixing color in with ce- from three directions, a view into the A recent check of its first hundred | jont there are numbers of coatings garden and also one into the strect enrollments shows 16 of these t0|o; the market which are applied to ave had a college education. Of his group two hold degrees in law as an academic degree, Uses Material on Best Methods It has, in addition, a cheerful open COlBM R byt el the outer surface, fireplace. Two doors lead into the nce the prices of material and oom labor vary so materially in different g¥cdan | localities, we do not attempt to give an estimate as to the cost, but sug- st that you consult your local build- who can give you detailed infor- mation as to the costs of your exact needs to be installed in this design. Board Institute. ong steps directly ench doors. A novel feature of this house is the In order to give into the The U ersity of Maryland, th sh M Clemens, dean of th College of Commerce, has taken steps to add to its equipm for real estate courses the materfal on best methods now in use in the r estate busi- the hall in such a way that it not | ness which has been ted by only leads directly to the living room the N fonal Association of Real Es- up of windows pe tate vards nd organized in the mits direct light to flood the dining on real estate p e » now room—through larg issued by the institute, de- portieres. the association’s weekly re- The position of the hall also forms a normal passageway to th kitc and into the main body of the hou where the bedrooms and hath have | been placed. This arrangement three distinct suites, the Princeton, Dartmouth, New University, Leland Stanford University and the University p | ifornia are represented. One comes to real estate from training t West Point, and one from train- in the School of Mines of the University of Minnesota York beautiful suggdstions for home muk- ing we have in this design introduced send stamped and self- elope to the Real Estate r sign, No. 17, addressed ef Editor The (Copyright, George Matthew Adams.) doors or | port Evidence the general educa- tional preparation which men going into real estate as a vocation bringing into their work is found in the records of students now en- the ! rolling In the Amerlean Real Estate o5 Belgian Building Unique. ot i on, unusual apartment house oper- which is attracting considera- fun, is in process sels. The D of h s| happy community shadow of Mount Ararat. are glves sleeping | and construction bulldings con from five to ni in thus joining this room to the main | kitchen cabinet is wanted it can be | | halls, | craftsmen REAL ES TAT APARTMENT Thirty-seven years ago one of the architectural leaders of the century erected a palatial home for B. H. Warder at Fifteenth and K When the progress of business de opment spelled its duom with the plans for the erection of the Invest- ment Building, Maj. George Oakley Totten, Jr., local architect, bought the exterior of the building and much of the interfor in order to preserve an architectural style now passed From its place of storage, the num- bered parts of the house will be brought and on Monday Mr. Totten will turn the handsoms residence into an elaborate apartment house in the garden of his premises near Sixteenth and Euclid streets. Only one thing Is lacking to com- plete the original design of the house and that Is the front door, which Mr Totten presented to the Natiogal Mu- seum and which became Exhiblt A of the proposed architectural section of the museum. get it back, but if he falls he has taken plaster casts from which a replica of the doorway can be made. The Warder home was the work of H. H. Richardson, the famous archi tect who designed Trinity Church, Boston; the Pittsburgh Court House and the John Hay hous and H streets, which will also vanish it was to be torn down, Mr. Totten felt that this work, a free rendering +of Romanesque style, should be pre- served. He bought the exterlor of the build- ing, the Numidian marble colums, the quartered oak staricases, the white holly dining room and had his architects number every stone and part of the building; then hired a | Bang of men to take it down in sec. tions and stored it away. The sections are to be assembled in Mr. Totten's garden and the old building is to be erected thers and turned into one of the most hand- some apartment houses In the ci Mr. Totten declares that he will not only have a For information as to the procur- | ing of the building plans of this de- | Old clothes contributed by Amer- ica's charitable families have literally { rebuilt Darachichak, Armenia, which before the war was a prosperous and | living within the | | i | homes. Containing seven mill with six miles of improved streets. The Triangle of Mr. Totten will try to | at Sixteenth | soon for a new $3,000,000 hotel. When | and the mantled | and | TO CONTAIN 'FRAME OF FAMED HOME Totten Using Material Bought When Old Warder Residence Was Razed—Fine Architecture Preserved. house when the structure is com pleted, but that a piece of historic architecture will be preserved. The ‘»xpvnllllurn- to complete the building | and the value of ti.e ground will ap- | proximate $500,000 | Mr. Totten points out that many of the historic homes in Washington now giving way before the advance of busi s and more modern build- ings could be preserved in the same manne Many historic buildings have been razed recently. The old Corcoran home, once the residence of Danlel Webster, has given way to the new | Chamber of Commerce of the United States Building. The John Hay house | also the work of H. H. Richardson at Sixteenth and H streets, has been sold, and will be torn down this Spring, giving way to a new hotel. It is also interesting to nots that following the intention of tho offi- | ciais of the National Museum to es- i(uhlls!x an architectural section, that the first_exhibit obtained was from | the old Warder residence. The only | other exhibit thus far obtained by |the museum is a $20,000 paneled | room of the colonial period, taken from a New York City residen | Because they feel that the restora- | tion work on the old Warder hou: by Maj. Totten cannot bo essentially | called the work of the late Mr. Rich- {ardson, they are not inclined to part with the doorway they now have an exhibit. Maj. Totten, howe feels that his house would be a painting without the head if doorway is not returned. New Sulphur Discovered. Large supplies of crude sulphur discovered in the United States in r. | cent years are aiding the develop- | ment ‘of the building industry, it is sald by W. H. 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