New-York tribune., 1921-04-17
5rea Home Ownership Movement Starts Two Weeks Drive
SkilJul Designers Plan
Homes to Help Shortage
Show How to Build Well and Cheaply Small Subur-
ban Homes; Prize-Winning Designs To Be Built
i'm Miniature at Own our-Home Exhibition

Realizing that architects have never
found it profitable to cater to the artc-
sian class and the builders of small
family dwellings, the management OF
the exposition this year conducted
with the approval of the American
Institute os Architects, national small
house competition, open to architects
throughout the United States, offer
ing $4,000 for the best plans sub
nitted for small economical homes IN
lumber, brick and back plastered metal
lath and stucco. Over 1900 designs
were submitted by leading architects
from coast to coast and the awards
ranged geographically from Boston TO
Los Angeles. Five nationally know1,
architects formed the jury of awards
6. II. Hammond, of Chicago; Edwin
II. Hewitt, of Minneapolis; L. j. Rus
sell. of st. Louis; Hal F. Hentz, OF
Atlanta, and Dwight James Baum, OF
New York, the contest being under the
direction of Henry X. Holsman presl-
dent Of the Illinois chapter OF the
American Institute of Architects.
Finest Designs Ever Seen
A oyomineut New York architect dis
and honorable mention designs SAID
that the competition had resulted In
the finest group Of designs of small eco
nomical homes that has even been as
sembled, which includes six New York
architects. 1t is interesting here to
note that the winners Of the first prize
in the brick division were husband and
wife-Edsar and Vera Salomonsky. OF
3e8 Lexington Avenue. The other New
York architects who were honored m
clude Ainshe NJ. Ballantyne, 119 west
Eighty-second Street, fourth prze,
brick; Theodore Nischer and James
Burley, s63 Lexington Avenue. fourth
prize. stucco; Alfred Cookman Cass,
lO1 Park Avenue, honorable mention,
stucco; John Floyd Yewell, East
Forty-second Street, and Robbins Louis
Conn, 101 Park Avenue, both honorable
mentions in the frame designs, and
John Floyd Tewell again winner in
the group division for a five-room de-
sign for lumber. In the list of prizes
and honorable mentions four awards
so to Detroit architects, two to Wash
ington architects, two to Boston archi-
tects and one each to Milwaukee, Los
Buffalo. New York, James
town, N. Y, and Beechwood, Mass.
ut would cost an architect six OF
like one of these prize winning de- /
signs." said Aymar Embury I'd, promi- |
nent New York architect and chairman
81 the architectural committee Of the
Own Your Home" Exposition.
''You can therefore see how impossi- !
Die it has been for the architects of
standing and talent to help in solving
he problems of the individual small
builder.
Models of Prizes To Be Produced
So it is these model homes, repro
auctions of the prize winning designs
hat are on exhibit in the tiny village
1T the 22d Regiment Armory-as indi-
yidual as expert home seekers would |
rave them-and furnished and equipped
Interior decorators, CO.
operating with the furniture interests
lave selected just the right color
scheme for the living room in the
'rame houses, have placed the suitable !
bedroom set in the brick home, the ne
,essary labor saving devices in the
<itcaen of the stucco bungalow. Archi-
.ects and furnishers have not endeav
pred to make the plans and the equip
ment look like the dream of an eff
,iency expert or the labor saving de-
vice department of large store--just
the best sort OF Judgment in planning