New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1921-04-10
~O'o'l Your Home''' Exposition
Opens at Arnory Next Saturday
Show at I'D Regt. Promises To Be Best and Largest
Yet; Miniature Houses To Be on Exhibition
and Propaganda Distributed for Home Building

Everything pertaining to home build
ing Will be on exhibition. Among the
Interesting exhibits will be miniature
model of the winning house in the re-
cent small house competition con-
Quoted under the approval of the Amer
lean Institute of Architects. The house
will be complete in every detail. carry
ing out the architects conception Of
the landscape arrangements, to the
piping and wiring of the kitchen sink.
The model Will be constructed of white
pine, having old Virginia white shut
tiers and a bottle-green roof The
beams provided in the living room are
to be stained dark brown and are band
sawed
The Own Your Home" movement is
the only effective propaganda against
protiteering landlords and high rents.
Home Building Movement Looked To
Every man who rents an apartment
or little house must have had borne
IN him many, many times in the last
two years the merits of home owner
ship. The revolt against rent paying
was never SO great, and now that the
ideals winch were strong in the early
citizens Of this country, when every
family owned the roof over it's head,
have been revived, it is likely that
there Will be witnessed in America in
the next few years the greatest home
building movement that has developed
in any country.
The Own Your Home" exhibition
will be the greatest and most valuable
from an educational and economical
standpoint that has ever been staged
III New York. No matter what YOUR
problem may be its solution can be
had At the exposition. This means that
If you are DESTROYS OF building or own
ing & home, whether it be bungalow
or a full-hedged dwelling. and you do
not know how to get things moving
toward that end there will be scores of
experts at the exhibition who win help
you push off into the realm of indie
pendeuce.
They will give you impartial advice
as to whether your capital Or your in
come will permit you to buy or build
such a home as you desire; whether i.
is best IN such type dwelling to in
stall this kind Of heating plant. or
ing in house near the ocean; or what
is the best building material to use in
the construction OF home in the
mountains. or whether tile roofing is
better in this climate than shingles.
You can ascertain in moment the
relative costs of construction of var
ious types of buildings. The cement
industry will be we'll represented by
experts who will readily give you the
length OF wears OF practical experience
in the construction field and in the
laboratory Of research in this impor-
tart building material If interested in
brick the field of information for you
is as wide as that on cement; also re-
iating TO lumber.
Building materials have dropped
considerably in cost since last years
exhibition and the prospective home
builder is further encouraged by the
recent passing of the tax exemption.
A feature of the exposition will be
booth established by thirty or more
of the savings and loan associations
of the metropolitan district cooperat-
ing to create greater knowledge Of
the procedure By which men and
women OF small means may obtain
the funds 70 baild en- bus their own
homes.