Evening Republican, Volume 19, Number 17, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 20 January 1915 — WASHINGTON CITY SIDELIGHTS [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

WASHINGTON CITY SIDELIGHTS

Model Houses Planned as Mrs. Wilson Memorial WASHINGTON.— Plans for the block of buildings to be erected ashington as a memorial to Mrs. Woodrow Wilson, on which the country’s foremost woman architects have been working, are in the bands of Mrs. Archi-

bald Hopkins, president of the woman's department of the Civic federation. A block of two-family brick houses will be built, consisting of two and four-room apartments with bath, the bedroom of goo? size, light and airy; the second room will be a combination kitchen and living room and all will face either the street or back yards; there will be no rooms built on courts. Each apartment will have a private entrance from the street into the yards, so there will be no public

hall problem, and the idea of privacy and a real home will be Inculcated. In the rear of each house will be a yard where children may play under the mother’s eye. safe from dangers of traffic and street accidents. Considerable space will be set aside for a community playground for the children. In the center of the group of houses will be a building used as a place of gathering, constituting a neighborhood center where there may be dancing, entertainments and general meetings. A day nursery will be installed and a competent woman placed in charge of it. A community laundry will be installed In the center building, fitted up in model fashion; tubs, hot and cold water, steam dryers or good space for open-air drying will be provided. The laundry and the day nursery were points In which Mrs. Wilson was decidedly interested. The rents of the houses will range from |7.50 to sl2 a month.