Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-08-03
Los ANGELES MEN
WIN PRIZE AWARDS
H. Roy Kelley and Harrison
Clarke Triumph in Better
Homes Test. ...
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the English Georgian manner of about
1900. It contains seven rooms and
two baths, compactly arranged. 1t is
the only prize winning plan with a
central hall that Is rectangular in
shape. Recessed entrance doorway with
architectural frame Of wood pilasterS
ana lintelS ana q bay window with
loaded lights are among the particular
~ attractive exterior details Of this de-
sign.
Mr.. Leone of Detroit, winner Of the
third grand prize Of $500. was one OF
six prize winners in the Detroit Free
Press Better Homes Competition In 1928
His design in this competition Is for an
English Georgian type residence Of 1
shape, containing six rooms and two
baths. This design in plan Is well
suited to lot of restricted frontage
Living room opens to street and garden
and a blank wall on the lot line In
sures privacy if house on the next lot
is but few feet away.
The national jury gave honorable
mention to designs by Carlos D. Barragan
and Earl Purdy, associated, OF New York
City; j. r. Howe and E. j. Hergenroeder,
associated, Of Pittsburgh; D. E. Stevens,
Cincinnati; Fred z. Sloan and Elmer A.
johnson, associated, Of Chicago, as yell
rs to the grand prize winner, Mr.. Kelley.
Competition Lauded.
In discussing the competition as a
laudible effort toward the improvement
Of home design In all sections OF the
country, Raymond Hood, chairman of
the national jury Of award, speaking for
the jury, said:
Community service and improvement
has long been the ideal of American
journalism. Architecture, more than any
other art or science, puts its stamp upon
the community, a seal which he who
runs or rides may read. A towns ag-
gregate taste, as we'll as the comfort and
contentment of its citizens, IS to be
measured by the way in which its homes
are built and equipped.
LAS members of the national jury OF
award of the 1929 National Better Homes
Architectural Competition, we feel that
Home owners Institute and the 13 CO.
operating newspapers which have fur
thered this competition for better home
designs are to be congratulated on their
work. In stimulating architects to de-
sign homes which are at once Of high
caliber i'm exterior design and efficient in
space utilization within, they have taken
a step forward In the entire field OF
architecture"
L. Porter Moore, president Home
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well pleased with results of the compe-
tition. 1T has drawn the attention Of
the architectural profession to the need
of better home designs and room ar
rangement; more than 5000 StudentS,
craftsmen and architects from practi-
cally every State and several foreign
countries participated" he said.
cit has resulted in the creation of
finely executed designs which possess
high architectural merit and which are
suited to the needs Of the small family
with modest income.
'It has shown that houses Of dis
tinctly formal design, such as pure Co
1onial or Spanish, are not as popular as
composite designs in which architectural
styles are intermingled. It has shown
that many modern accessories to living
comfort may be economically incorpo-
rated In house containing $1,000 cubic
feet of space at no sacrifice of archi-
tectural perfection or convenience Of
room layout"