Evening star., 1931-12-19
Silver Star Dwelling Attracts Home-Lovers
Wesley Heights House
Will Be Open for Third
Week Tomorrow.
SITUATED ON HIGH
GROUND IN WOODS
Pleasing Interior Effect Is
Created by Norman
French Motif.

Continuing to draw record numbers
OF home ing citizens of Greater
Washington, the new Silver Star Home,
at 1929 lockwood parkway, in the
Spring Valley section of Wesley Heights,
VIII be open for its third week of pub
lie exhibition tomorrow.
Sponsored by The Evening Star as
dwelling designed to exemplfy the better
ideas of modern housing principles, this
palatial stone house, rejecting the in
huence OF Norman and French archi-
lecture, was opened two weeks ago for
month of public demonstration.
Thousands of interested visitors already
have inspected its many outstanding
features.
Among points of particular interest
to be found in this commodious dwelling
are Its maSSivenesS and stability of con-
struction, close conformity to the style
OF community plan, the convenience and
INABILITY of its arrangement and the
laVlShnesS and stylishness of its fur
nishingS
In Spring Valley Section.
Conspicuously marked by a Silver
star sign, the home is easily accessible
from the city. 1t may be reached by
way OF Massachusetts avenue to WiScon-
sin, turning left into Cathedral avenue
and continuing through Wesley Heights
and, via a paved road to the entrance
to Spring Valley. From this point the
route is marked by signs, leading to the
left at lockwood parkway to the exhibit
house.
The home itself is mansionlike in
size, occupying a wooded lot and set
black distance from the roadway on a
rise OF land. The permanence of char
acter that marks its construction is at
once apparent, and the visitor is i'm
pressed with the pleasing arrangement
OF the recessed doorway abutting an
octagonal tower which is a feature of
the outer design.
The house was constructed BY w. C.
& A. N. Miller, developers of Wesley
Heights and Spring Valley, and was
built from the architectural plans of
G. E. MacNeil, 1t has been furnished
for the period of the demonstration by
Dulln & Martin, who have arranged the
interior in manner in keeping with
the style of the home itself.
French Motif.
pleasing effect has been created
throughout the dwelling by adoption of
the more attractive form of Norman
French motif and Incorporating on the
interior certain features of Georgian
influence which lend an air of luxuriant
comfort characteristic OF the style
period
Included in the basement plan of the
mouse is a room of unusual interest.
known as the recreation room. 1t is
reached by an attractive circular stair
way from the main entrance hall and
through short hallway.
The recreation room has been given
an unusual and pleasing wall treatment
OF limestone. A large stone fireplace
carries out this feeling Oak furnish
lngs are used in The room, the recrea-
tlonal purpose Of which is further en-
phaSized by large game table placed
in its center The draperies in the
room are linen print in blue, gold
and mulberry, copied from a piece
found in Kensington Gardens England
Hall Is Commodious.
The wide and inviting entrance hall
of commodious dimensions. which is en-
tered through the extra width doorway,
is given touch OF formality by reeded
pllasters and cornice. An important
phase OF this portion Of the house is
the sweeping circular staircase built
within the octagonal tower, leading to
the second floor. se!f-fringed green
carpeting in the hall, stairway and
dining room, which is Immediately
opposite the entrance, contrasts effec-
lively with brocade draperies used at
the windows on the stairway.
To the right of the doorway is the
spacious living room, with front and
side exposures, furnished in exquisite
style. The dining room leads to the
picturesque and inviting terrace which
f1anks the Handicapped garden French
doors from the library enter to the left