New-York tribune., 1922-11-26
Rectangular House
Most Economical
Type TO Build
Minneapolis Architect Plans
Five Room Building
Along Colonial Lines;
Places Cost at $500

DuiiQ IN theSe days or h1gh consGruc-
tion costs is a rectangular structure.
| In Tribune Plan No. 81 shown this
week, Don A. McLaren, architect OF
Minneapolis, Mimi, has succeeded i'll
cleverly designing such house along
interesting Colonial lines.
Its Ave rooms, with giassed-in sun
parlor and sleeping porch above in ad-
dttion, have been very successfully fit-
ted into design of rectangular
house with no waste space, while skill
full handling of the windows and more
particularly the entrance door, has re
sulted in home OF dignihed Colonial
charm.
The front entrance vestibuIe with the
curved copper hood and it's trellis which
is extended around the large front first
floor windows gives q striking and in
dividual appearance that cannot fail
to please.
MIR. McLaren has designed this house
for masonry walls of hollow concrete
block, over which is applied Portland
cement stucco. Cost of constructing
this house within the twenty-five mile
radius of New York is between Sc soc
! and $7,500, according to the Home
Owners Service Institute, Inc, con
firmed by the Eastern headquarters
Office of the Portland Cement Associa-
ton. Its outside floor dimensions are
thirty feet in width by twenty-four
feet, not including front vestihule and
rear porch rs indicated on the accom-
panying floor plans.
With such dimensions this house
may be erected on lot forty feet
wide or of larger frontage. Of cream
colored stucco finish and bright green
| blinds at the second-story window, with
vines climbing over the trellis on the
first floor and the whole topped by .
warm red roof, this house should be a
delight to the eye as all times.
Red Concrete Title Roof
| For the red roof the architect has
| suggested concrete tile OF red, though
other roofing material might be used.
| To insure the Colonial spirit Of the
| design Mr.. McLaren has included in
ths working drawings large scale de-
| Tails OF the woodwork around the en-
| trance porch. the rear sun or break
iast room and sleeping porch above al
the rear, and the fireplace in the living
I room.
The huse is approached through a
vestiboule in which ia q coat closet, AS
| the left of the entrance Is q living
room the full depth Of the house and
opening on glazed porch in the rear
| Of liberal dimensins. Clever planning
has placed this porch SO that il is as
accessible from the kitchen as the
dining room itself, thus enabling it to
oe used as breakfast room at all sea-
sons of the year.
On tha ther side OF the house and
separated from the living room by the
stsirs ls q commodious dining room
with Sutlt-in sidehoard A we'll pro-
portioned kitchen with range, sink
with double drain boards, and plenty
OF cupboard apsce, is shown on the
plans.
The arrangement OF rooms upstairs
ls simple. A large bedroom is provided
on either side OF the stairs in the front
! Of the house. Each bedroom mas ex-
ceptional closet space. The bathroom
/ Is at the head OF the stairs. Ii baa
tile walls and aicoye type of tub. Two
linen closets are provided in the upper
hail. The architects drawings show
sleeping porch over the breakfast
room or the first door.
Porch Of Solid Walls
Ii 10 pointed out by the Home
Owners Service Institute that, If de-
sired, this porch may be built with
solid walls and windows added AZ
small additional expense, possibly $500
70 $500 providing third large bed
complete working drawings and
/ specifications for Tribune Plan Ma.
81, designed by Mr., McLaren. and
checked for accuracy by the Portland
Cement Association, can be nuyrhasad
from the Home Owners Service Tnsti.
tute, Inc, 81 West Thirty-ninth Street
lows: *ot
Masonry ard Concrete Work--Al,
1ootings and foundation walls of eon-
crete antsh; concrete stems % front
porsh, l:S Portland cement morfa,-
.stuceo 90 be Portland cement stueeo9
1's naix, ssye coats applied, as per ths
recommended practice for portla,s
cement stnceo o8 the American Ger
crete Institute, included with detailed
spe clrcationss Faced concrete bIocE
DnicS veneer Or osher exterior finish
I9ay pc used, at owners aption. Cnn.
crete chimney caps, concrete basenae,,t
aaors four inches thick, smooth fn;eb
soncfele steps to fgont porch and snn,
crete base for bathroom tile door are
specified. Si-S '''ot are
Carpentry Rough lumber 70 he ~
spruce or Ar. Complete framing diree-
ssons sons With working drawings and speci-
ncataonse Floors TO be sever -gightss
lhca spruce or North Carolina pine
utadef flooring. with .oak tog. aooyir,.
or With by 3 comb grain pina Hoorl
ing, ~ ewner's eption, Exterior t,,in,
9 se of,whife Pine % cypress. Ia.