Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1933-03-04
Simplicity Features 1882 Model Small Home
B O ston Architect Is
Given Annual Gold
Medal Award.
SETTING ENHANCED
JURY'S SELECTION
Compactness of Building
Also Considered in
Naming Winner.
TIME outstanding small dwellir

TINE outstanding small dwelling
erected in America in 1882, as
selected by a jury Of leading
L architects, Is model of COM
pactness and simplicity Of
Built at Brookline, Mass. this house
won for its designer, Royal Barry Wills,
Boston architect, the gold medal
awarded by Better Homes in America,
Inc, in its annual small house archi-
tectural competition. 1t was erected
for Maurice A. Dunlavy, of Brookline.
President Hoover, as honorary chair
Gently presented the medal to Mr..
Wills.
A story-and-a-half dwelling of early
American style, the Brookline house
was one Of eight selected by the judges
as deserving of mention, and was given
first award. All Of the homes selected
indicated q trend toward utility and
convenience in their interior arrange
ment.
Due consideration for the setting of
the homes also was given by their de-
signers, as indicated by the efforts of
the architects to plan exterior contours
with regard for the particular sites for
which the houses were intended.
Prize Winner Praised.
The committee which made the
awards was selected by the American
Institute of Architects, which named
Dwight James Baum of New York,
winner Of the 1881 gold medal award,
as chairman. Commenting on Mr..
Wills design, the committee stated In
its report:
THE first prize plan by Mr. Wills
shows great charm, expresses the spirit
Of the locality in which it Is built. has
q fine scale and composition and shows
good use OF materials. 1t has an air
Of domesticity and shows great care
In the manner in which all detail has
been brought together. There Is
good. frank use of chimneys and
fine handling Of the entrance terrace.
This one-and-one-half story plan Is
compact and well arranged. There Is
q fine relation of rooms combined with
economical and efficient circulation.
The library is arranged with real
privacy. The second floor hall occupies
the minimum amount of space and yet
this small home has ample-sized
rooms
In the treatment Of the front eleva-
ton, the roof line on the living room
side extends out to include a small
at the same time avoiding an abrupt
drop. A baroness on the facade of the
protruding street side wing Is averted
by use Of small dummy window about
the second floor level. The monotony
of a long roof line on the central wing
Is broken by chimney effect.
In the one-story class the jury gave
honorable mention to a dwelling owned
and designed by Leland F. Fuller of
Santa Monica, Calf, and a house in
Santa Barbara County, Calf, designed
by Ralph c. Flewelling for DR.. S. G.
Nude.
Other Selections.
In the two-story class, first honor
able mention went to William Wilson
Wurster, for home designed at Santa
Cruz, Calf, for Alister Mackenzie
Others In this class receiving honorable
mention included home designed for
Mrs. Lee B. Woodwork in Newton,
Conn.,, by William Webb Sunderland:
a dwelling designed by Rollin c. Chaplin
for himself at Minneapolis, and to Miss
Elizabeth Colt of New York, for her
design Of a home at Croton Heights,
N. Y, for Miss Anna B. Van Mort.
Charles S. Keefe of New York also
was given honorable mention in the
story-and-a- half class for his design
Of home at Darien, Conn, for John ].
Farrell.
Better Homes in America was organ
lied 10 years ago with the help Of
President Hoover, then Secretary of
Commerce, Is supported by philan-
thropic funds and established to stimu-
late the improvement Of homes in every