Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-07-11
HOMES PLAN JURY
SELECTS WINNERS
Names Are Not Announced,
as All Are Entrants in
National Contest.

Judgments of the jury of awards in
the local regional contest IN the
national better homes architectural
competition, sponsored in this area by
The Star, were recorded officially last
night, but these regional winners as yet
cannot be identified, under rules of the
national competition, in which $4,000
in prizes is to be awarded.
Since the three local winning designs
will be entered in the national COMPETE
ton with the three best designs from
the other IL contest areas in the COM
petition conducted by the Home
Home Owners Institute, the identity or
the local prize winners must remain
mystery until the national jury has
made awards for the grand prizes.
Necessary for Fairness.
This period of suspense. which tends
to heighten interest in regional con-
tests, is deemed necessary to assure
absolute fairness to all national con-
tenders. Each of the winning regional
house plans thus will be identified only
by a nom de plume and the final
national jury will have no way of know
ing whose plans they are judging.
Yesterday afternoon the local regional
Jury, headed by Frederick Vernon
Murphy, dean of the School of Archi-
the big pile of plans submitted, care
fully Analysing each in the light OF vari-
Gus technical and professional require
ments and at the close of the session
gave unanimous decision on the three
winning designs
In addition four other plans were
selected for honorable mention in the
contest, members Of the jury also rem
dering unanimous decisions on these
designs.
Three Winners to Get $500.
The designers of each of the three
house plans adjudged the best of all
submitted IN this area will receive $500
cash prizes in the local regional contest
and in addition. will be entered in the
national competition in which there
will be prizes of $4,000 for the first
grand national award, $4,000 for the
winner of the second grand national
award and $1,000 for the winner of the
third grand national award.
Members of the local regional jury, ir
addition to Mr.. Murphy, were: Horace
w. PeaSlee, president OF the Washing.
ton chapter of the American Institute
OF Architects; Louis JuStement, a paSt
president OF the chapter: William C
Miller, past president of the Washing
ton Real Estate Board and chairman Of
the home builders and subdividerS' di-
VISION OF the National Association Of
Real Estate Boards: Felix Mahony oil
the National School of Fine and APP
piled Arts, Edwin w. Schneider of the
firm of Schneider-Splaedt Co., builders
and representative of The Star.
Much Care Is Taken.
Scrupulous care was exercised, in
conformity with rules OF the nationa
competition, to assure absolute fairness
to all contestants. A clerk opened the
drawings submitted, numbered the
drawings to identify later the nom de
plume signatures OF the contestants
and placed in a sealed envelope the
identiflcationS of the entrants. Their
the jury judged the house designs, which
had been hung about the walls Of the
board room of The Star Building, where
the jury met.
On first inspection, there seemed t.
be a score Of real contenders for prizes
but as the members of the jury. expert
in various phases of home building