Evening star., 1941-07-12
New Silver Star
Home 10 Open
Tomorrow
Low-Cost House
Is Located in
Columbia Forest

A low-cost home at TOOL Chelton
road, Columbia Forest, Md, will be
opened to the public tomorrow as the
sixth in the 1941 series of Silver
Star Homes. The house is at the
intersection of Chelton road and the
East-West highway, adjacent to the
Bethesda Chevy Chase High School.
There are six rooms and bath in
the new home, and the rooms are
unusually large for dwelling of its
price class. The lot measures 88 by
100 feet, and it has been attractively
Handicapped. The location is one of
the best of any low-cost develop
ments in the Washington Metropol-
itan area
MeadoWbrook, Inc, of which Mon
roe Warren is president, built the
small house. This firm erected and
sold more than 500 houses in 1910,
probably more than any other build
er in the United States. Their de-
velopment of Arlington Forest, in
nearby Virginia, was rated first in
1910 by the Federal Housing Admin
istration of all the low-cost sections
in the country. The Star house is
similar to the type the firm built so
successfully in Arlington. 1t was
designed by Kirkhuff e. Bagley,
prominent architects. who drew the
plans for many of the Capitals best
homes The house has been taste
fully furnished and decorated by
Palais Royal, under direction of
Verda Woods
200 Houses Planned.
Columbia Forest is new section
of the Meadowbrook organization
and more than 200 houses are PLAN
ned there. The property stretches in
back of the Columbia Country Club
golf course, and is most desirable in
location and appearance.
The housing experts who compose
the Silver Star Homes Committee
Endorsed the Columbia Forest house
unanimously. The committee ex-
amined the house thoroughly. 1t is
the first loW-cOSt home which the
committee has recommended for
The Star award in several years.
James S. Taylor of the Federal
Housing Administration, is chair
man of the group. Other members
include Irwin S. Porter. well-known
architect; Edwin H. Rosengarten,
builder, member of the firm of Davis,
Dick & Rosengarten, and Waverly
Taylor, president of the Washington
Real Estate Board. Approval of
house by this committee is necessary
before The Star will sponsor it un-
der its Silver Star plan for encour-
agement of better home building.
Brick Veneer Construction.
The house is of brick veneer con-
struction. The walls are furred,
while use of an insulating board
prevents further leakage of heat.
Records show an amazingly low
heating cost for this type of con-
struction. Good materials we're
used throughout the structure. Two
coats OF plaster were used. The
basement. of solid concrete, is water
proof. The house has double floor
ing, with the finish of select white
oak. Other structural features in
clude copper water pipes, steel case
ment windows. with metal trim, and
16-mesh copper screens on the first
and second floors. Winter air-con-
ditioned heat supplied by an oil
burner is used.
The living room is 13 feet inch by
II feet inches in size. A living
porch measures 9 by Is feet 10
inches. The dining room is II by u
feet inches, while the kitchen is IL
by 7 feet inches.
Bedrooms on the second floor have
ample closet space. There's linen
closet in the upstairs hall. The
master bedroom is 13 feet 3 inches
by 10 feet in size. A second room
measures IL by II feet 4 inches.
while the third is by 9 feet 10
inches in size.
The house will be open to the
public through Sunday, August 8.
Visiting hours are from 10 m. until
ep.m.