Evening star., 1937-01-30
HOME HERE WINS
). NATIONAL HONOR
Editors Select DR.. Hands
Wesley Heights Residence
for Magazine Issue.

Out OF the hundreds OF houses re-
Gently erected in the exclusive real eS-
tate developments of the country, the
attractive home of DR.. Frank Hand
at 49l5 Van Ness street, Wesley
Heights, was selected by the editors OF
House and Garden as one of the 36
outstanding homes included in an i'm
pressive 72-page home building por-
folio issued in conjunction with the
February number of the magazine.
It was designed by Edward r. Spano
OF Washington. Another house shown,
also in the w. c. g. A. N. Miller de-
velopment at Wesley Heights, was the
English home at 4848 Upton street.
Leon Chatelain, jr., of this city was
the architect. These houses were
chosen for their excellence of design,
planning and construction.
The portfolio of houses-including
architects plans, exclusive photo
graphs, detailed construction data and
financing information-.s the sepa-
rately bound feature section Of House
and Gardens February double num-
Der. This issue S the third of the
series Of double feature numbers,
which first made their appearance last
September, and met with such notable
success that no less than five such
issues will be presented during the
current year. Each will devote an en-
tire section to one Of the major sub
jects related to the home, giving it
more comprehensive treatment, both
In text and illustration, than is pos
sible In a regular issue.
Number Well Timed.
. Because of the tremendous Nation
wide interest and activity in the field
of residential construction, the Feb
ruary double number of House and
Garden is we'll timed.
Devoted, as 1t Is, to detailed and
extremely practical presentation Of
fine homes, actually built within the
last year in some 80 of the leading
residential developments throughout
the country, 1t contains a wealth of
inSpirational material Of great value
to both the present and prospective
home builder.
Believing that real estate developers
now are making important and in
teresting contributions to the present
revival Of home-building, House and
Garden invited we'll known real estate
firms in every part of the country
to submit pictures and plans of their
latest creations.
None Of the houses had been shown
In any magazine before. And out of
the hundreds of pictures submitted
80 were chosen by the editors as being
the best in architectural design, good
taste, comfort and convenience. The
collection includes houses built in 80
different restricted communities and
represents the work of many different
architects.
In addition to fine photographs of
the houses, and floor plans made to
scale from the actual blue prints, in
formation on types of materials used
for building and roofing, color schemes
and other construction data has been
outlined from the original specifica-
tions. An innovation is the inclusion,
also, of both cost, financing data and
carrying charges.
The houses shown In this House and
Garden portfolio have been built to
sell, with lot, at prices ranging from
$9,450 to $48,500. All have at least
two baths and most have garage space
for two cars. Many provide for Winter
air-conditioning. which includes hu-
modification and air circulation and
permits the owner to add Summer
cooling system If he desires.
Wide Range of Types.
In geographical setting and type,
they range all the way from New Eng
land cottages to a California adobe
ranch house. Many show the in
duence Of Georgian architecture,
though the interpretations are liberal
" modern. The strictly modernist
type has not been found suitable, so
tar, for the real estate developer.
Two other features in the February
issue of House and Garden are of in
terest to both the real estate man and
the prospective home builder. The first,
entitled why You Should Build
Now" is by Roy Wenzlick, president of
Real Estate Analysts, Inc. Like his
best-selling book, THE Coming Boom
in Real Estate" the article is based
on the findings of building surveys,
which Mr.. Wenzlick's research organ
tzation has made back as far as 1900.
when You Buy Real Estate" by
Hugh Potter, president of the we'll
known River Oaks development, Hous-
ton, Tex, and vice president of the
Houston City Planning Commission,
describes the advances made by SUBJ
dividers in the field of city plan-
ming. His enumeration of the char
acteristics for which a purchaser
should look in the community he has
under consideration will ser-e as a