New-York tribune., 1922-11-26
Construction
Costs Are Low
I'm New Jersey
Tribune Test Provides Conn
parisons of Value To Pros
l,ective Builders: Mod.
el House Opens To-day

Though architectural skill, good
Workmanship, the best of nationally
known buildings materials have been
combined 70 make Tribune House Nc.
80 the equal in construction xnerit OF
the Tribune demonstration houses built
saeently at Iarchmont Gardens, ii is
not these similar outstanding features
which believe will make this second
house IN the series even more popular
tAan its forer9nrer," said Henry At
.erbayy Smith after inspecting Trib-
ene House No. 80. which is officially
opened to-day to Tribune readers and
others interested in home ownership.
SI,2ee Room Possible
''To have built this six-roons New
England Colonial frame house at a
cost OF less than 81 200 per room to-
day, with material prices having risen
is per cent over the last ninety days,
IS indeed an accomplishment
Complets from cellar to garret--and
there is real attic storage space in this
hoine--Tribane House No. so is ready
for public inspection to-day. Even tho
decoration and landseaping have been
finished
The house is located in Phelps
Manor, Teaneck, n. j., about 80 min
utes from Ferty-seeond Street and
Broadway, reached by the West Shore
Railroad or by trolley from Fort Lee,
the New Jersey terminus Of the I25th
Street ferry. The automobile trip is
direct and delightful. The house is
just of Queen Ann Road, one block
from the Hudson River trolley stop,
and two blocks from either the Bogota
or Phelps Manor stations of the West
Shore. II will be open four weeks
9oF public inspection.
In detailed statement of congtrue-
tion costs accompanying this announce
plent, the Home Owners Service In
stitute shows that including the 10
ger cent margin of profit allowed John
Reed fitzpatrick as general contractor,
the actual building cost was $6,745. .7s.
OF an average cost per room Of
s1,124.24
A recent statement from the struc-
tural service bureau Of the American
Institute of Architects, made by Sui
hvan w. Jones, it's director, estimates
that no small house of merit can be
built to-day in or near New York for
m average cost of under $1,000 per
room. There are certain conditions
with regard to material and labor
costs which make small house con-
struerion in New Jersey as cheap, IL
not cheaper, than any other district
within the twenty-fve-mile radius of
New York
All these findings are coming out of
4hs joint campaign of The Tribune
aud the Home Owners Service Insti-
tute in connection with the construe-
lion of experimental demonstration
houses in the various districts within
this twenty-fve-rnile radius for the
seneht and advice of those who con-
template building or buying.
Larger Than Larchmont House
Tribune House No. 80 is larger
house than House No. 6, built al Larch-
mont Gardens, Westchester County, as
the official demonstration house for
Better Homes Week in America. The
aone opening to-day at Phelps Manor
81 quite similar in architecture, being
New England Colonial built of wide
siding, finished white ard green in
exterior coat OF paint,
Arthur J. Barzaghi, New York
architect, who specializes in small
house design, particularly for indus
trial developments where standardiza-
tion of plan is essential to lowering
construction costs, prepared the plans.
The design was so we'll conceived and
executed that it was decided to build
rot only Tribune House No. so for
demonstration purposes at Phelps
Manor, but to construct eighteen
houses in this same development from
the identical floor plans, varying the