The Detroit times. [volume] (Detroit, Mich.) 1903-1920, 1914-12-18
PLANS OF HOUSES
|lNHONOR OF MRS.
WILSON ARE TOLD
New York Women Architects
Designing Model Tenements
for Washington
coNTAIN 2 TO a ROOMS;
RENT FROM $3.50 TO Sl2
All Provisions Made for Work
ers' Sanitary and Moral
Community Center

NEW YORK. Dec. ls.--The WASH
lngton branch of the Womans CIVIC
Federation Is busy with plans TOT
practical memorial TO the late MFs'
Woodrow Wilson.
This consists OF block or model
houses affording homes for Norklns
people. The plan was evolved py
women and is designed TO make nome
conditions better.
The New York firn OF Schenck 8
Mead. architects, has been selected
10 make The plans, and Miss Anna
Pendleton Schenck and Miss Marcia
"A Mead. in the Offices, No. l05 West
Fortieth-st, told OF the details OF
3 the work. -.
at was through Mrs. Wilson's IRE
less efforts said Miss Schenct ina,
the Alleys bill was introduced anu
PASSED. II means that over lo'Oou
families will be without house room
when II goes into effect. The alleys
will thus be left for their original use
e Through Gen. NJ. Sternberg oil the
Sanitary Housing association mucn
good has been done, but a great deal
more must be accomplished before
enough homes will be built for those
dispossessed from the wretched
& Alleys.
.Tt is Mrs. Archibald Hopkins at
& whose instigation the work was pc
gun, and when the plans are COM
Melted over 20 families will find clean
+ and comfortable homes.
"a block OF two-famlly brick houses
will be built, consisting OF two and
four-room apartments with bath, the
Y bedroom OF good size, light and
airy. the second room will be COM
ninafion kitchen and living room and
Z All will face either the street or back
wards. there will be no rooms built
r on courts. Each apartment will have
*< 81 priyate entrance from the street
and into the yards so there will be
no public hall problem, and the idea
of privacy and a real home will be
Rinculcated.
Elm the rear of each house will be
yard where children may play under
the mothers eye, safe from dangers
on traffic and street accidents. Con-
siderable space will be set aside for
La community playground for the chill
dren.
'sIn the center OF the group OF
houses will be building used as
place of gathering, constituting a
81 neighborhood center where there may
be dancing, entertainments and gen
eral meetings IL is hoped to form a
home club in this colony OF workers
b and that all may be induced 10 take
a real interest in making great sue.
cess not only OF the workaday lie
n INT fha social eide 40 well
"A day nursery will be installed
and a competent woman placed in
charge OF IT, A community laundry
will be installed in the center build
ing. fitted up in model fashion, tubs,
hot and cold water, steam dryers or
rood space for open air drying will be
provided The laundry and the day
n,1rsery were points in which Mrs.
Wilson was decidedly interested
Another addition To these model
houses will be the hospital. No mat
Ter how willing the family may be
10 care for one who is i'll II is we'll
nigh impossible, especially among
[hose who must go to work. Inc
medical attendance and nursing will
be arranged on a moderate priced
scale
-The rents OF the homes will range
rom $3.50 to SIP month. ! do not
mink that this includes heat, for a
rentral heating plant would be very
Expensive, but that is detail yet 10
4 be considered A social worker will
be Installed in charge OF the houses,
and this worker will be agent as well,
This block Of buildings, 1t is hoped,
will be made independent and self
supporting. II is not in any way in.
Blended that this shall stand in the
light OF a charity. The money given
for the construction OF the buildings
will be considered investments, on
which at least FIVE per cent will be
Drawn.
The library and its building will
be given outright and funds will be
HELD for making the entertainments q
1,lccess and OF aiding in the upkeep
of the hospital and day nursery, but
that Ii Is as II might be in a nursery
hospital or library Instituted indie
Dendently OF the houses, the homes
themselves will be self-supporting
md that Is what IL is wished those
who live In them will understand
That no disagreeable atmosphere o
Gopendence may creep In.
~In the workingmen's cottages II
England IL has been found that al
the family grows and its differen
nembers became wage earners the!
move to larger places. That is I'll,
1hinR desired here: the overcrowdinl
1f house will not be permitted
<1hat the ardent workers OF thu
V0mau's Civic Federation are nov
f ntriving for is TO be able to soon be
1in the work of building this splendid
memorial TO greatly-loved woman.