Evening star., 1938-08-27
3 EXPERIMENTAL
. HOMES ON VIEW
.Fairway Hills Community Is
/, Built of Lumber in Low
! Price Range.

The Laboratory community" OF
eight small wood homes built by the
National Lumber Manufacturers As
sociation and located at Fairway Hills,
Just beyond Glen Echo, was pre-
viewed early this week by Govern
ment and business leaders interested
in housing and IS now open to the
public.
! The project is the first completed
unit of the Nationwide national small
homes demonstration, a campaign de-
signed to arouse interest in home
building and to prove that adequate
homes may be built under $4,000.
The eight low-priced units range in
construction cost from $2,212 to $3,596
and seek to popularize construction
OF this type within the building in
dustry as now constituted. The pri-
mary activity of the demonstration
programs for 1898 and 1889 will be a
direct effort to encourage builders,
realtors and community developers to
offer more houses which can be car
ried at a rate not to exceed 81 to So
per week on a long-term purchase
basis.
3 Houses Of Two Stories.
The community at Fairway Hills
offers five one-story and three two
story houses and will be open for
inspection today to September S.
House No. Is q one-story mini
mum expandible garden apartment
and consists of living room, bedroom,
kitchen and bath. The cost of total
materials and labor only was $2,212.43.
House No. 2, a modern bungalow,
has a large living room, two bed
rooms, kitchen and utility room. 1t
is finished in plywood and cypress,
and the cost of labor and materials
was $2,661.22.
House No. has a basement, two
bedrooms, living room and kitchen
and was built at cost of but
S2,7043o 1t is interesting to COM
pare this home with house No. 4,
which for only IS additional contains
three bedrooms, large living room,
kitchen and utility room. This is done
by putting the money used in house
No. 3 for a basement into the extra
bedroom and larger living room.
House No. is an abpve-ground
bungalow and represents . unique de-
parture from the ordinary design two
bedroom house. The living room is
upstairs in this home as we'll as the
two bedrooms and bath. Kitchen,
dining room, utility room and combi-
nation porch-garage are located on
the ground floor. Its construction
cost was $3,244.1s.
House No. Is a three-bedroom
home on q two-bedroom foundation.
The additional bedroom is made pos
sible by a 2-foot overhang on the
second floor and eliminated large
part Of the cost of the foundation.
In addition to the three bedrooms
there is a bath. living room, dinette
and full basement. It was construct
ed for $3,039.62.
One of "Salt-Box" Type.
House No. Z is New England salt
box type and gives more house for
the money. This home has three bed
rooms and a bath upstairs, . large
unfinished space over the garage
which may be used for fourth bed
room or play area, living room. di-
nette, kitchen, garage and full base
ment. The material and labor cost
equaled $3,596.96.
The final house in the community,
No. 8, presents another departure
from the conventional construction
method. The siding Of this house IS z
inch plank, and its use eliminated any
expenditure for the three separate
operations of framing. sheathing and
application of exterior siding. The
pIanks of this wall fit together in
grooves TO form one continuous sid
ing There is living room, two din
ing rooms, kitchen, bath and utility
room, and its cost was, $2,563.69.
To reach Fairway Hills drive out
Massachusetts, avenue to Conduit road
and turn right to Wagner lane or
drive out Conduit road past Glen
Echo Park to Wagner avenue. 1t is
adjacent to the Bannockburn Country
Club