The Key West Citizen Newspaper, September 19, 1953, Page 9

Home Building Comes Of Age In Key West [Progress Takes Toll... | Old Architectural Landmarks Pass with minimum of skilled leber, tmey are functenel ts, however, comparing the nes with the 19th s. depiore the loss of r the gleaming nified height, the he practical yet Kevs Dream House Contest First Prize Winner Contractors, Suppliers, Home Services Join In Marking Home Week Observance In Lower Keys By SUSAN McAVOY. Real Estate Editor The cele f National Home Week in Monroe County this week marks the coming of age of the home ying industry in Key West and the Wasrea. e DR oom Key West's famous native politics. it has been in its archi- son painter Gene Otto did the Island an unasked favor three years ago when painted two magnificent panoramic pictures of Key , |West, one looking toward the Gulf and the other look- ing toward the Atlantic tecture ene While other parts of the natior make eve ratior building and Florida Keys Throughout the nation where the building industry has long been established the week is being marked with model exhibits of what the industry can provide in pri- Record High Is Hit In August In County Bldg. $391,546 In supr ppt es 844 tone houses Key We ‘id masonry make others in Key West seen with "i oners 4 bringing great Climbing to the topmost perch ¢uble-decker porched mac: r nt and brick for on La Concha notel roof, Otto put down under the demolition b m of Fort Taylor Brick on permanent canvas the beauty of ™*T » Martello towers were the old Curry and Sons ship chand Progress is fine, say those wh the Civil War But ery on the Gulf - the spires of the cherish Key West's beguty, but th . $. Government en tin roofs of the old Bouses of the WhY Dot move the = mansio Key Westers stuck to Island other parts of twon instead of de chor bolts and mortise and 4 . them forever non more substantial ma the _— id. om @" houses and s buildings were es, section on Key West j poeagece of 1. fi the of New hitecture af wood He was right in paint and and the graceful British it was r he did. Daily an old landma Os od Gis Ge Bicester ogg agg be demolished to make way for a new f ten buildings going up citizens t pl ag cago Rage store. Daily a clear stretch of sea eck “ pie Bengpent non costing vate housing Here in the Southernmost outpost of the United States, the newly built homes from Key West to Key Largo stand as a year-round ex- hibit of what the local contractors, suppliers, and home services cana abot And what they con do ip te handle any home job from the manufacture of concrete for foundations te supplying the last silver fork for the dinner t until the great fire of mas, today 4 ‘ MRS. 'W. S. BROWN submitted the above plan for her Keys Dream House and was awarded the first prize in the contest which closed yesterday. Mrs. Brown lives at 915 Von Phister Street. E. A. Strunk, National Home Week chairman for Monroe County, announced the prize—Drawing by Enns. Mrs. W. S. Brown Is Winner In Keys Dream Three Entrie. Are Selected By Judges For Prize Awards ‘The Keys Dream House plan sub- i Rose Street, can make her choice jove | shan have a complete unit with ‘be an exhaust fan, too. Ey House Contest sink, electric dish washer, electric garbcge disposal unit. There must “There shall be an electric range with double ovens and electric re- frigerator with separate freeze ‘units atop. The utility room shall have hot water heater, washing machine and dryer side by side. My bathroom shall have one count carporte is laid with stones for an extension of the patio especisily during a shower). The bedrooms later. “And you have my Key st L house, and oh, how I'd i of prizes following the selection jawn Ff have called the shops and ascer- tained what Mrs, Brown, first prize winner has selected. Prizes are as follows Key West Ventian Blinds, a Don- gon stack chair made of aluminum with plastic webbing. Adeline's Interior Decorators, two custom made bed spreads for twin beds, or one double sized bed spread Maxwell Furniture company is giving a modern lamp. tir Ho is re Jalousies 3 prize-winner, Mrs. Steven- deveribes her Keys Dream House as follows: “A small oval. shaped porch, two bedrooms with jalousies, and large closets. “I also want « large living room with double doors opening into the dining room, with » medium sized window on the left. 1 should like an Island counter separating the kit Mrs, Brown described her Keys chen from the breakfast room. Only Dreamhouse in her own words follows: “My Key West dream house shall be built of pink shamp brick with a white tile roof. Brick shall be painted inside, The one large inside wall in the living room would be of Florida pine, painted white, The wall between the two bedrooms would have a closet with white sliding wooden shutter doors for each bedroom, Then built-in chests of drawers for each bedroom. This would take up the complete wall “The front door will be white painted pine with two white wood. en stationary shutters (with tilt Tods beside it. All living room and bedroom windows will be white wooden stationary shutters with tilt rods, All inside doors will hite wooden shutter doors with tilt rods “There shal! be glass louvered windows in bathroom, utility room end kitchen. Two glass louvered doors shall lead from kitchen to patio and car porte. “The living room brick walls will be painted cocoa brown. The draw Grapes over bar (between dining efea and kitchen be aqua silk shantung and these will be the only curtains in my house. My love seat will be covered in pink aqua print. My hand r ed hands) antiques will sit w the cocoa walls and s @ull aqua wro will set the room « ‘ m yellow for kitchen and utility room walls Deep Dathroom, Aqua for master bed. foom and pink for next bedroom “The floers shall be pink terrazo throushout the house. The kitchen shall n and glass if there are no children would I suggest a swimming pool. I do want a patio, however, and a breezeway to conform with our climate.” First Federal Is Aid In Financing Home Purchases Responding to the need for ad. ditional home financing facilities, the First Federal Savings and Loan Association was organized in May 1952 and has financed construction purchase of building of 11% homes since then. The Association with $1 0 deposited in savings accounts, now das $750,245 in as sets, according to Fred J. Dion, president Purpose of the association is to offer t eople of Key West and Marathon a place w save money and receive a high rate of interest on their sav are in Government avid The Florida Keys Building story is a fast moving one reaching toil in millions of dottars One of the men whe has spent a vast sum in developing the Keys a tourist center, ‘s F. P. Sadowski He has to date put more than $2,000,000 in improvements at his well-known Key Colony at Mara thon Shores. Sadowski came to the Keys in 1951 to retire. He stayed to become more active than at any previous period of his full and productive life Choosing Marathon as his center of operations, the former resident of Michigan has built an entire colony of motel units duplexes and homes north of Marathon. He shoots not st for the transi st trade in me units the year round busi s. In fact, &5 pe who live in Sadowski which started n d rate M per cent per 0.600 bh been building or re to work and earn an excellent re turn on their insured savings Directors of the First Federal Savings and Loan Association in a addition to Dion and Ga are vice-presioent Robert H. Eugene Anheir, vice-president and Garrison urges Key Westers and treasurer; Dave King. J. Y. Porter Keys residents to put their saving: IV, and Cari Bervaldi sent the First Federal Sav nd Loan Association has a applications for loans use ack of funds view gives way to a building quoise water is filled with golden mart concrete blocks mote!s and drive-ins Tur and on top of that are piled , ‘or stores, houses The greatest revolution occur- omy, its seciel structure or its eeilinged ample s gs, one-sterie smali rooms prevail The new houses are suitable to ing in Key West in the lest 100 the climate and the needs of years has not been in its econ- modern families whe vents. They are easy te build presents the it go up with green ° Edition apartments and houses are retired If they should \eave for the sum as employes for the various Sado wski enterprises. He much pre the permanency of these ser citizens to snow-oirds, he said last week. As a result more and more of the retired people are working for Key Colony at the uxurious restau rant, Cabana Club, fishing pier, and in other enterprises Sadowski gives credit for much of the Keys prosperity to the pio neers in Marathon, and up the Keys who had the vision tc see t most strip of playground an of the CLOSING VACATION PLEVNA, Kan Hinst cently ¢ first time in 36 yea Mr. and Mrs. Jack Hinsb cided to take a three-day va trip. They've managed the s years. Hinshaw's parents be a balf century ago. twe uses were bh. made red rooms, today low d, houses with and lack ser- ne Isl { not all the publ An Iris! responsible Key West architecture and rame and most of ¢ buildings n, Wiliam Kerr was the first revolution He de Permits Issued By Inspector The largest volume of Keys build signed and built by 1891 the three ing permits since the compiling of red brick buildings that are used today Marathon Builder Sets Up Colony a Of Tropics With All Facilities For Keys’ Life still City Hall, the old Post ntinued on Next Page) The Key West Citizen National Home Week records began was reported the month of August by County Building Inspector Jesse Sione Topping by $40,000 the previous high month of June, the August total of permits issued for building houses, aparmtents, garages, and commercial structures to $391,546. POWER HOUSE Largest permit of the month was taken out by the Florida Keys Electric Cooperative for a $147,000 power house, D. H. Reynolds ob tained the contract Ray Dodge is erecting three apartment buildings near North Marathon Shores et a cost of $37 440. He had previously built eight apartment building, making a total of eleven, according to the Build ing Inspector ROCK HARBOR Harbor Shores at Rock Harbor is putting up four CBS houses at a total cost of $21,120. They have built six o. these houses costing $5280 each in the past months MARATHON OFFICIALS BUILD Engineer John P. Goggin is build ing @ $12,180 CBA house in Mara thon. John Castell, Jr. new State con servation agent, is building a $10, 000 house west of South Marathon shores. The First Federal Savings and Loan Association which foreclosed on the mortgage of the Rod and Reel Club is making 412,500 in re- pairs to the luxury motel Malcolm E. Reynolds is building @ $9,600 frame house on Summer. land Key Alonzo Cothron is building a $15, 000 filling station at Islamorada Floyd Lamb has taken out an additional $8,000 permit for the fil ling station he is building in Mara for amounted thon. This brings his construction cost to a total of $14,000. CBS HOUSES R. L. Seruggs, is building a $3,- 680 CBS house at Rock Harbor. C, T. Boggis is putting up a $5, 200 CBS house in Marathon. Phillips Dennett is building a $8,626 CBS house in Marathon. Grace L. Fitzpatrick is building a $5,760 CBS house at Rock Har- bor Lindsley Lumber company is (Continued on Next Page) PINK STUCCO MOUSE at 1501 White Street with overhanging coconut palm and modern design is typical nf the homes ne struction on the Keys Each home has its own chzracteristics and landscaping making them each individualistic though of the latest design.—Citizen Photo, Finch. teble, according te EB. A. Strunk chairman of National Home Weel for Key West and the Ploride Key Something new has been added to the building story here, Strunk stresses Industry in Key West and the Keys is able to provide everything for modern home construction and furnishing.” That means that the property owner planning to West or on the Keys ne has te turn fo the construction, financing, concrete block, designs, sion, or equipment or Every institution and ing with heme building ed right in Key West. old and established Fi tional Bank te the First Federal and Se Lean Associstion, and surance companies, home ers can get financing, When it comes to contractors for the job they can choose from @ growing list of tirms whe are now organized in a General Contractors i 5 i ate i rAssociation, These include M. E, Bennett Construction company and © BS. Construction. Presidents of both these companies, Bennett and Joe Pearlman are co-chair: man of the National Home Week Committee in Monroe County. Other contractors who are licen- sed in Key West at the present time are 8. H. Drudge; Roy Ed- wards, Paul Hyre; Peter T, Knight; Porter - Wagor - Russell; Charley Toppino and Sons; R. H. Wright; Maione and Roberts; Mod- ern Homecraft; Perma-Stone; Rey- nolds Construction Company; James L. Staples, Austin Taylor Stevens; Henthorn, and Johnson. A pioneer in much of the build- ing in the last decade has been Joe Jirugo’s Sunshine Construc- tion company As far as materials are concern- ed, Strunk Lumber, Lindsley Lum- ber and Cheeley are among the suppliers The advertisements on the fel- lowing pages of Home Week edition builders where te the construction ef ther it is @ $5,000 $90,000 mansion. The Florida Keys is one that started founding of Key West the first frame houses the pioneers. It follows through tury when the fa houses were barged by early home ow Fire destroyed, hands rebuilt the 1886, The Spanish | World Wer | and it kind of military West. Private building slump following that lasted until when @ flurry place. The bottom was hit in Depression of the 1990 West homeowners saw tages and mansions falling cay for want of paint and repairs, The Island was sbout to be aban- doned, the population resettled on the mainiand, when there appeared on the scene a program of rehabl litation which involved every mam woman and child im the nationally spotlighted effort to save Key Wi The determination of Key W: ers and the help of the Government brought the leland tom to the eve of World The vast expansions of the Ne in Key West and the development @ the tourist attractions ed a shot in the arm to the building industry PH Fs zie 3 = e 5 é i aE 2 g f by il tit a | Sz j efi ef tan i F : i! 4