Los Angeles herald. [microfilm reel] (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1900-1911, 1908-02-09
THIRTY HOUSES ARE
UNDER CONSTRUCTION
ONE IN MISSION STYLE WITH
MANY INNOVATIONS
Busy Office Ie Finding an Abundance
of People Who Are Prepared
to Build Their
Homes

Ye Planry Building company has
just completed plans for a number OF
artistic homes to be built in ana near
Los Angeles, as follows:
A seven-room house to cost $4,000 for
Mrs. A. T. Fletter, to be built on
Gramercy place, near West Eight
zenith street.
An eight-room double dwelling, cost
$500, to be built for George w. van
Vliet at Covina, Cal.
An eight-room, story and half resi-
dence, costing $4,000, to be built for X:
Ryse at the corner of Arlington and
West Twentyfourth streets.
An eight-room, story and a half resi-
dence, cost $4,000, to be built for G. w.
Sisk at 1876 North Winona boulevard,
Hollywood.
The company has also prepared plans
for ten-room, one-story mission house
to be built for Mrs. William Judson
Smith on Fair Oaks avenue, Oneonta
Park South Pasadena. The house Will
have cement plastered walls with
mission tile roof and VIII set at an ele-
walton of nine feet above the side
walk and sixty feet back from the
street. The foreground will consist of
a series of terraces, from which the
building will be named Los Terrados.
The building will be fifty-four feet wide
and sixty-eight feet deep. The entrance
will be direct into a spacious living
room, 19x27 feet, with a large fireplace
and an art glass skylight in the cell
ing. In addition to the many electric
lights the living room will have cleo
trio lights above the art glass skylight
which will throw a subdued light
throughout the room. Directly back of
the living room will be dining room
15x15 feet, which opens on to a large
cement terrace with wood columns
and beams above. There will be a stair
way leading from the living room up
to the den, which will be in the tower
at one corner of the building. The
den will be treated in the old mission
style with dark woodwork and exposed
rafters and roof boards above. The
front doorbell will be quite a novelty.
1t will consist of an exact duplicate Of
an old mission bell of a miniature size,
with a cast top to receive the ropes
from which the bell is hung, and will
have a small lever extending to the
front, from which will hang rope to
ring the bell. When the bell Taper
comes in contact with the sides of the
bell it will ring a bell simultaneously
will set in a niche provided in the wall
at the side of the front entrance. The
house will cost $4,000.
The same firm reports the following
buildings in the course of erection:
A seven-room house for G. H. Force,
being built at the corner of Arnold and
Bixel; cost will be $4,000.
A six-room house for III. ]. Schaper
on Harvard, near Santa Barbara street;
cost will be $2500.
A six-room bungalow for Mr.. Wuest
at 931 Bushnell street, Alhambra; cost
will be $780,
A five-room bungalow for Mrs. c.
McCabe at 1862 Dalton avenue; cost
will be $500.
A six-room bungalow for William
Dodge on Hope street, near Fair Oaks,
South Pasadena; cost $4,000.
A six-room, story and half house
for Fred L. Paul on Paul avenue, East
Hollywood; cost will be $4,000.
A tive-room bungalow for r. S. Greg
DRY. built at Fullerton; cost will be
$780,
A seven-room bungalow for A. j.
Schmidt on West Forty-eighth street,
Vermont square; cost will be $4,000.
A six-room bungalow for r. M.
Webb at 1130 Hoover street; cost Will
be $780,
Two six-room, story and a half
houses for I. /. Phillips, corner of For
ty-third street and Pasadena avenue,
to cost $500 each.
An eight-room, story and a half
Swiss chalet for c. w. Barton at Riv-
erside, to cost $6000
An eight-room, story and half resi-
dence for ]. C. Brady at Fullerton, to
cost $4,000
A nine-room, story and a half resi-
dence for A. M. Williams on West
Forty-ffth street, near Birch, to cost
$4,000. f1aPl4
A six-room bungalow for J. E. Farm