The Seattle Star Newspaper, October 22, 1924, Page 14

Many Stetson.& Post : Homes Built This Year to Beautify Seattle Fast-Growing Business Causes Long- Established Lumber Company. to Build New Mill- Furnishes Plans for Home-Builders “Yosemite,” a Very Popular Four-Room Bungalow Stetson & Post Lumber ( direct from the mill to the consumer, | home plan: the Stetson & Post Lumber company, | a great! which been in business for half | year an @ century, is just now completing a] Th Second large mill on the Duwamish | pany is one of the Waterway at the foot of Dawson st../ this city, having been dn addition to the large mili and sash | 1874, when Seattle wa and door factory located at 3390/lage and its population a larg. Whatcom ave. The new mill will | centage of Indians. The original r have double the capacity of the pres-/at the foot of W. ent plant the Seattle Hardwa The Stetson & Post Lumber com. | locat pany owns its own timber, operates | Seatt its own logging camps, its own log- | prompt ging raliroad, its own mills and its} the city w, this property b ‘Own miliwork plants, In addition, it!too valuable for a sawmill st st., near wher was destroye An Attractive Colonial —Stetson & Post Lumber ¢ Bells direct from the producer to the | land waa sold for docks, and the 1 consumer, and makes {t easy for the | removed to the present loc ; 1914. home-builder by furnishing complet hie ‘éheupany: pretuiily fets of plans and specifications. record for having furn Tncluded in the Stetson & Post de-| home-building material in 8¢ signs are many of the most popular = any other concern, bec a8 ed in all these y onenlow and colonial-type homes | oc huliding trad flow seen in Seattle and other cities | ¢riputed, in a large thruout the Northwest. The company | rapid growth of Seat does not feature what are known as he company’s desire to maki Fknockeddown” or “ready.cut”| 11" ba Fagin adop : houses, but furnishes the wooden| fur nerrotutidene building material for any house| grade of material desired. been above the stan ‘The company furnishes the plans, | of selling direct from Specifications and a specified amount | homebuilder has ¢ 2 of certain sizes and guaranteed | tomers to effect man omies, at fades of material. the same time securing homes of the ‘The new mill of the company on| highest quality and most modern the Duwamish waterway will all be | type. “Rosewood,” «a Very Popular Six-Room Story-and-Half Colonial Stetson & Post Lumber Co. ° THE SEATTLE STAR WEDNESDAY, OCTOT It Takes Good Lumber to Build Good Homes Here are just a few of the more than two hundred homes recently built in Seattle with Stetson & Post plans and Stetson & Post guaranteed quality lumber and millwork Ges MEPOS LUMBI We furnish all lumber, lath, shingles, windows, doors, Send 50c for 1924 Plan Book showing prices and frames and inside finishing. floor plans. All of Stetson & Post framing lumber is cut extra thick, giving you at least twelve per cent more strength, at noadditional cost. Stetson & Post lumber, in all grades, is better lumber because it is more carefully graded REMEMBER—You don’t have to buy one of our plan book SEE OUR PLANS—We have plans of all style houses—from homes to get the benefit of Stetson & Post known quality and three to eight rooms—and many of them have been built in reasonable prices. We sell any amount of wooden building ma- terial to anyone, anywhere. We sell “Direct from the Mill to YOU.” Seattle. Come in and look at these plans, and get estimates on cost of construction. WRITE OR CALL FOR OUR ESTI- MATES SEND 50c FOR 1924 PLAN BOOK STETSON & POST LU 3300 WHATCOM AVE SEATTLE MBER CO. ELLIOTT -O?11 The Home Owner Has The Warmest Memories of Later Years); BY HERBERT HOOVER, Seeretary Department of Comme The house shoul The character of a people is largel mbol of the {¢ Affected by the home in which the the fami dwell. The profoundest influences of| The hig vil early ehiighood are those of the|bullt, not by noma ples, but b: family circ. The warmest memories | nations in which the mass of the of later years center in the home, It| population are home owners deepest experle rations © been Constructive Life Aim‘: | old example there are new fields open in f human life.| modern methods, and the y fitting | produced Center in the Home pi shia ‘hos Okie follow’ Cuate | in the Denna’ Be post We pirit and to business. Jatmosphere in which to bring up chil- | greatest of inspirations of our peopl — ; Aspirations of our people, | human charm and o literally have passed, but|recovery, when our national produc:|'They see that taking a neighborly in-|dren. ‘The home owner haw a con ee Iehe witter’= A: con ppivinis [tivity ip inereasiig, rartave t jeveloping sound financing | structive alm in life, He works harder FRAMED PHOTOGRAPHS | optional kind, ehlark by modern Indu taining higher living #tan-| or building a home require pund judy x . ersonal needs of the family | section of the peopie is awake to the are best met with the funds available. | problem and ig the environment of most of the home lovers. The countless American | It involve y not only the carrying on business groups have publicly ac. that the cards should not be stacked of a social system that permits the have | he past, str trar of finar uinst the hom r individual © up the fruits of | famity t iat | ¢ @ 1 wainted by an arti whos news, breaking thelr building, but © that un-| A family that owns ite home takes | hig labor ct t WOR la Wott eenL eta note pi , havé shown us tl termination y encom: |a pride in it, maintains it better, gets |take a m par fble to have portrait photo i. practical| respect to school, to work, and to| pass a ma ‘ to own his|more pleasure out of {t, and has a|ernment, Above all, the } by photogra © | who put into their w omé true. | ne » good com: |more Wholesome, healthful and happy | is one of the finest ins finest in: achinery for the and insistir f honest, straight nods by those who ers, ix not paterna i isine tizenship. It is the “#quare deal" more apt n increasing number of|and It Is not only right but essential | have an interest in the ad erials| portunity to make definite pr se of joutwide his home; he spends his) Should Be Confined to Bedrooms | tasteut to- profitably, and he and| finer life and er right direct as General Rule | orname’ Portraits—if they are good por- ations of a ay as they|the family pt ‘e beautiful | placed in the r works of art, and excellent as part | the house—the the furnishing of th Altho few of us ¢ traits: Happily, a larg lrooms of th }whom they are dear, or the study to|rather than in the living room or portraits of members of our’ hall, where we receive our guest.