New-York tribune., 1922-09-17

miles apart FOR demonstrations Three
building contractors will be used.
Various savings and loan assccia-
tions will take tho first mortgages.
Purchase of property is being made
from individual owners. under terms
which are not identical in any
instance.
Severe Test Purposed
Labor and materials conditions
differ in each locality. improvements
of property, nature Of ground and sub
soil, tho consequent planting Of lawn
ing codes and laws, and other con-
ditions and circumstances will present
separate series Of problems in each
instance.
GAS the story Of the planning, Hnanc-
ing and building of these three houses
and others--is told from week to
week on this page Of The Tribune, 1t
will indeed offer liberal education
in home building and buying for the
prospective owner.
eve will make mistakes, ms we'll as
savings, while the program proceeds, ~
Mr.. Smith forecasts. "In my thirty
years Of architectural and building ex-
perience I have yet to learn Of a con-
struction enterprlse-Rrom the So, 900
house Of the good old days TO the mil
hon dollar apartment hotel--which did
not have an error or two to point at
when completed.
ain pointing the way toward home
ownership for Tribune readers, mis-
takes-if any--as made will be singled
out so that they will not be dupli-
Gated"
A,n+6n. xroLY... ,,ayoI. 80 r.,,4 :
the building plans committee was the
selection of building sites which would,
III each instance, be easily accessible
for persons who desire to visit the
houses while IN course OF construc-
tion; and when completed. Each house
will remain open to the public for in
spection several weeks after its com.
pletion.
Transportation facilities by rail
subway, elevated, surface or railroad.
are excellent for easily reaching eacn
location. Also the houses will be close
70 the arteries oY automobile travel.
Directions FOR reaching each house will
be given in The Tribune, as rapidly is
rhe construction has progressed 30 q
point where there is really something
worth while seeing. No one wants to
pay visit to hole in the ground, but
When the masonry cellar walls are up
ana actual construction ia in progress
each location Will be defuitoly an
nounced.
Details of Designs
a complete description of the three
designs selected for the first thros
demonstration houses is given below
Ifloune Plan No. 0---rhis five-room
COLONIAL frame house was designed by
D. tIoyd Yewell, a New York architect
WNlnnlng, first group prize in the recent
NaUohaI y Architects Small House
GS,onipetition." 1t was selected by the
National Lumber Manufacturers Asso-
cation Tor exhibition in model form al
the 1922 Gown Your Home Wv F~nos; ~ q
Won and was featured in a special ed
t1on OF The Tribune Sunday. Anrii %
Inc plan includes living room. din.
ing room. and kitchen on the fjrs+
lltloof, and two porches. There are
TWO bedrooms and bath on the sec~
ond door, II is a two story and n
hal2 house. "'l"
Tribune Plan No. 12-TypicsIlv +bo
1taIlan mission type of architectnre
many similar homes are found throurb,
out southern California. It's deeipners
a hrm OF architects in Los Angeles
montgomery & Nibecker, have sneeifcG
tae construction Of stucco on back-
pIastered metal lath.
THIS plan won third prize in this
classification in the 1921 national arrh.
iitect's competition. St is sir.~no4, ir ~aCr,
mousse, designed so that it could be cas-
iiiy enlarged II later requirements of
the owner necessitated
The first hoor includes largo a,.
TRANCE hall, living room. dining room
ana kltchen. Up stairs thnre ara thran