Evening Republican, Volume 21, Number 187, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 17 August 1918 — HAVE PLANNED MODEL TOWNS [ARTICLE]

HAVE PLANNED MODEL TOWNS

Beauty as Well as Utility Considered! by Architects Building Homes for War Workers. Nearly all the towns being built inthe vicinity of war plants will be permanent. So permanent houses of a type satisfactory to the best skilled labor will be built, 100 here, 1,000“ there, and as high as 10,000 in one or two towns and covering whole squaremiles of vacant countryside with pretty little houses, boarding places, stores and theaters, paved streets and all utilities, expertly laid out by the* foremost town planners and architects . in America. - Haste is the main thing in these new towns, but beauty and good taste have* not been forgotten. Planned and built as they are by able men in single largeoperations, they will show to Americans many of the best examples of harmonious real estate developmentswe have yet seen —by far the best housing and neighborhood conditions that American labor has yet enjoyed. The operation at Camden, for instance, will have 2,000 little houses la groups, all in pure and varied colonial architecture, designed by Electus D. Litchfield, free from clashing contrasts of style.