Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1915-12-23
HOMES Of REAL NEW WORKERS
Modern Apartment Houses Have
Displaced the Flat.
Luxury and Comfort the Keynote ia
city Life of TO-dny-Riverside
Drive "lmpossiblc''-Park Ave-
nue. the Vogue just Now.


far ahead OF the fiat as the house was
an Improvement upon the cave. writes
Gertrude Willlanls in the Public Ledger.
New York may ne famous for its lob
ster palaces ana tiotter!cs but to the
real New Yorker. VINO rarely visits
Broadway except to show some out-of-
town guest the sights. New York Is best
beloved for the comfort and complete
ness Of its apartment dwellings,. They
range from the little boxes OF two rooms
and BATH at s25 per month. to the latest,
most luxurious apartment dc luxe now
under construction at the corner Of
Fifth avenue and 72nd street. a history
building whose top floor alone will rent
for $4,000 year.
1t is easy to distinguish N, modern
apartment houses from their predcces-
sors. They have discarded the fancy red
brick towers and convolutions and stain
cd glasses Of earlier days Tho houses
built in the better parts of town during
the inst five years are simple buildings.
, usually Of livht gray brick or stone. Of
excellent proportions and well-spaced
windows. absolutely bare uf trivial or
namentation.
The old porte cochere las been done
, away with. and it is now considered the
| thing to put up n special awning. mono
gramrlel with the house address, on
cloudy or rainy DAYS, running n strip of
carpet from door to curb, with q ch,cr-
fully elaborate. wedding -receptiony air.
Symmetrical box trees stand Mt either
see Of the entrance. and a uniformed
doorman, who springs to assist women
IN ard ont of their limousines, lends an
air of snartncss.
INTERIORS MOST CHARMING.
Passing these houses at night. a glance
into the broad. square entrance halls
shows interiors charminEly decorated
as any French poster artist could con
/ trive In one Park avenue apartment
broad glass doors, mullened with black
iron show a black-and -white-c @ eclser-
ed marble floor in the foreground. \
back oak table makes a long. straight
line across the center of the picture. and
back OF it, against the far wall at either
side, stand squatty green dwarf trees
in decorative Chinese Jars of green and
white. \ golden glow of amplight in
the center of the table. and on each side,
near the entrance, smaller wall lights
of the same golden yellow, shining down
on black oak chairs. balance the design.
or perhaps it is a graceful staircase, or
glowing oriental rug. or a long mir
rored hall with heavy ratfcrs. giving an
effect of deep perspective. which is made
the motif Of the decorative scheme.
The entrances are done by some of the
best decorators in town. Any bride
about TO do her own home may we'll
make a tour of the smart apartment
house entrances for hints as to the new
est effects in rugs. hanginss, color
schemes and general effects. Sometimes
the decorator is given floor to furnish
| as model apartment, the benefit being
mutual-to the decorator in demonstrate
Ing his artistic skill and to the house
owner in showing the possibilities of the
| apartment when furnished.
Here are the newest fads in Chinese
rugs and plain-toned carpets. gay linen
hanging of vivid flowers against a black
, ground. or perhaps the more conven-
tional brocades. and tremendously COW
cred chairs and davenports. Soft read
| ing lights. a gold-brocaded work basket,
not for stockings to be darned-the maid
does that-but to hold the stockings be-
| ing knitted for the Belsians perhaps;
books and magazines on the table. toys
/
| vivid and lived-in air to the rooms.
ALL-NIGIIT ELEVATOR SERVICE.
All-night elevator service goes with
| out saying. and the swiftest most noise
! less elevators operated by uniformed
lackey in vizored cap and white gloves.
whisks you to your floor, where you
stop out into a little private foyer. In
order TO give an added air Of privacy,
each Of the several elevators cormuni-
Gates with only one apartment on each
! floor.
Some people Ike the eense OF having
all their rooms on one floor. With no
stairs to climb; but for those who pro-
fer the old house sense OF an up-and-
down stairs. with the sleeping rooms
shut away completely from the living
roomc, there are duplex apartments.
These are little two and three story
houses in miniature. with the troubles
OF furnaces. hot water heaters. side
walks to keep clean and leaky roofs TO
mend all eliminated.
The top floor apartment In tho apart
ment house now under construction on
Fifth avenue is all on one floor. It has
a frontage of 100 feet on tho avenue.
This is divided into three magnificent
rooms--dra wing room, living room and
dining room. eaHh averaging about 81
by 8 feet. They ara connected by
double doorways. Bach has its wood
burning fireplace and splendid windows
looking down over the greenness of Cen
trail Park and the glistening waters OF
the reservoir, No private house on the
avenue can equal this apartment In It's
magnificent outlook. for private houses
DO not tower up to IL stories.
MODERN NOTE IN KITCHENS.
II is perhaps IN the realm of kitchen
service that the apartment house makes
Its most varied appeal. and especially
to more limited incomes. for whom $50.
900 views are about AZ practical as Alad
dins lamps. In practically all OF the
better class new apartments, even mod
est little four and five room homes rent
Ing for $1,000 to 1900 there Is a sepa.
rate service elevator and a separate dool
from the kitchen into the hall. maxim;
Il possible for the maids to go in ant
out without coming into the front OF thu
: house.
This also dlspensos entirely with tn
tedious old dumbwaiter Now the ice
4. man brings his ice to the door and him
! self puts It in the iceboX; the garbage
! Is called for; the grocer's boy leaves hi
! orders on the kitchen table, and tn
maids beau can cali on her in the eve
ming unobserved.
In houses where tho tenants do no
indulge in tho luxury Of their own per
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