1938. Winter Haven, Florida | Homer G. Gibbs, Architect Ted B. Johns Co., Builder
A home hardly can be a joy if its upkeep is constantly making raids on the pocketbook. But the need for expensive maintenance can be avoided if the…
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"Where once it was viewed as a form of sadness, nostalgia,
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1940's models of snack-nooks
If you're tool-handy, you can build this nook. Work out your colors, or pattern after this richly hued scheme-burnt-orange leather for the seat…
1940. A Bildcost garden-home by architect Verna Cook Salomonsky
THIS Bildcost Gardened Home is designed for the people who want to own their homes but haven't much money to spend. It's small, yet will hous…
Sunset Homes: a hillside home by Architect Harwell Hamilton Harris
This graceful house, nested like a living thing in its natural setting, achieves two outdoor living areas on a relatively steep slope. One bedroom …
1940. A home in Garden City, New York designed by Architect Reinhard M. Bischoff
WHITEWASHED common brick over cinder blocks and open steel joists as floor beams result in the termite- and shrinkproof construction of this Garden…
1940. This house was designed by: Architect George Wellington Stoddard for Hugh H. Russell's Development of Blue Ridge, near Seattle, Washington
OF LATE COLONIAL architecture, this home has a Dutch-door entrance, and another Dutch door leads from the living-room to the roofed, flagstone terr…
1940. A house designed by Architect Beresford Beck for Mr. and Mrs. Chester Speakman, Wilmette, Illinois
THE PROBLEM presented to Architect Beresford Beck by Mr. and Mrs. Chester Speakman, Wilmette, Illinois, was to provide a design for a permanent and…
1940. Architect Bertram A. Weber, of White & Weber, Architects, of Chicago, designed this attractive home
HERE YOU SEE a house with complete accessibility among its component parts. There's direct access from kitchen to front hall and from garage to…
1940. Early American home designed for Mr. and Mrs. William Linn, of Shaker Heights, residential suburb of Cleveland, Ohio
HERE YOU SEE an Early American home designed for Mr. and Mrs. William Linn, of Shaker Heights, residential suburb of Cleveland, Ohio, by Architect …
1940. Architect Clarence Cullimore designed it; Alva Hackney and Sons built it for the Walter Wickershams of Bakersfield.
HERE'S A SMALL HOME adapted to California that has hopped the Rockies to tease the Middlewest. Seven rooms sprawl 72 feet at ground level, and …
Sunset Homes: a spectacular home by Roger Lee
One of the most attractive qualities of this sloping lot is a spur of mountains several miles off to the southeast. The house is designed to get fu…
Sunset Homes: a Terry and Moore house on the shores of Lake Washington
The requirements for designing a house for a shrinking family are just as exacting as the requirements for designing a house for an expanding famil…
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