Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-06-08

homes being sponsored this year by The
Star and the Operative Builders ASSo-
citation, one of a group OF English
houses on Forty-fourth street, In Fox
all, has been furnished for its month
of exhibition and will be opened TO the
public tomorrow morning. 49,.
The house, located at 1878 ForCy-
fourth street, was built for the model
home demonstration by Waverly Taylor,
Inc. It has been furnished by w. B.
Moses, g. Sons, under supervision OF
Genevieve Hendricks, interior decorator,
in a style in keeping with its type and
design.
The public is invited to visit the
house tomorrow or at any time during
the ensuing month, from 9 am. to 10
pm. To reach the house drive out q
street, through Georgetown, out Reser-
voir road to Forty-fourth street, on the
eastern boundary of FoXall Village,
and south on Forty-fourth street to the
house. Just below @ street. The house
NAV also be reached by the Burleith
bus from Dupont Circle and the FOX.
all bus to Forty-fourth street and
Reservoir road. The house is two snort
blocks below Reservoir road.
Due to conditions over which the
builder had no control, Forty-fourth
street has not yet been paved, but there
is a sidewalk in front of the house.
There was delay in getting gas mains
laid and this has held up paving OF
the street. However, there is easy
access to the house.
Is Double front" House.
The Foxall model home, as designed
by Waverly Taylor in association with
Porter 81 Locke, is one OF a group OF
nine dwellings, each OF individual plan,
and it is called "double-front" home,
due to special attention to beaut1fca-
ton of the rear elevation. 1t is OF
brick. in full range of rich red colors
and laid with clinker brick In English
garden bond. The roof Is OF rough
green and purple slate of random
widths, lengths and thicknesses, above
which rises a double chimney OF brick
and topped with chimney pots:
There is q covered front porch, with
AIDED structural timbers of cypress and
oak, stained a weathered gray brown.
At the rear Is seen a oouple-oeck
screened rear porch.
Genevieve Hendricks chose 10 1ur-
nish the dwelling not purely as an
English house but in the early Amer
lean tradition, which combined Eng
lish furnishings and contemporary Amer
lean pieces adapted to the New World.
world
The broad beamed door under the
hooded porch opens into an entrance
hall, with walls giving a note OF well
come through their warmly colored old
English toiie paper of quaint design.
Up q step from the hall with Its
star lantern and red tiled floor is the
living room of generous proportions.
The walls are covered with q plain
stippled paper in a soft colonial yellow
to match the background of the figured
paper in the entrance hall.
Carpeting Is Plain.
On the floor is q plain carpeting OF
soft nile green which harmonlzeS
with the color of the oak floors and
the furnishings. At the sman-paned
windows overcurtains OF an OLD
English chintz with mahogany colored
BACKGROUND and quaint flowers OF
browns and rose tints and blue-green
foliage set the color scheme Tor the
room. This same chintz covers wing
chair by the fireplace. A large over
stuffed sofa is along one wall, but IL
does not shrek" of twentieth century,
for its design Is reminiscent OF OLD
England and its covering OF SOFT green
reminds one of the simple homespun
materials, Nearby a tiny lowboy,
copy of famous old one now in the
Metropolitan Museum, offers its tor
for magazines and ash trays and for a
reading light with soft apricot coloreo
shade. Another table, simple in de-
sign and with top turned up against the
wall. stands near the door and holds
pewter trays and a pair OF pewter
candlesticks. opposite the wing chail
by the hearth is a simple armchair OF
q. design popularity called the Martha
washington. In the center of the wal
facing the fireplace is a secretary desi
OF simple design, where one may Sit
on the ladder-back chair before 1t anc
read under the light OF the iron nool
lamp.
Old Prints On Walls
The pictures in this room are OLE
prints, few soft colored etchings ant
aiIbouettes In modest black frames
under an old Constitution mirror.
At the base of the stairs which opeT
tnto the living room and adjoin TIT
dining room is q grandfather clock. OF
The wall of the dining room Is thu
same old-fashioned wall paper Is II
the entrance hall, above simple chai
rail Below it is the same plain papel
a. on the living room walls. A Jad'
green rug covers most OF the moor anS
offers a pleasing base for the waxet
maple furniture placed upon 1t. A
porch brocaded curtains Of a cedar ret
frame the view into the valley beyont
the garden outside.
An open cupboard similar to the oil
Welsh cupboard holds china and pewte
on one side of the room, while oppostt
it is a serving table. Chairs OF tn
early banniSter back design, also II
maple, are placed around the wall
and an armchair Of the same desigl
is drawn up to a stretcher table.
A plain carpet OF the same green Q
is used in the living room and dinin
room climbs the stairs to the secon
floor and serves to combine the color
Of the first and second floors.
On the walls of the master bedroom
is a quaint old-fashioned wall papt
with flowers and feStoonS in soft apr
cot and green shades on cream color
ed ground. At the triple window
against the ruff1ed net curtains, al
overcurtains of a plain apricot colo
which tones in with the wall paper an
offers contrast to the Powered gree
chintz which covers an armchair an
which also is used for the valance O
the four-poster bed. The furniture
this room is of waxed maple and is