Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 5 April 1940 — Page 26
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HAMMERS BOOM AS HOME SHOW OPENING NEARS
200 Speed Work for 19th Annual Presentation Next Friday.
The 19th Annpial Indianapolis Home Show is but a week away. Next Friday night the doors will swing open at the Manufacturers’ Building at the State Fair Grounds onto what national building authorities have called “ ful home show in the United States.”
It will run for nine days. | For the first time in its history the show will have three houses complete down to| the doorbell as the exhibitor’s centerpiece. | In other years the exhibits and gardens have been concentrated: around a single model home. Last year it was the “All-Indiana Home.” A home for everybody is the Horie Show planner’s answer to growing interest in the yearly exhibit. There will be a “Town House,” designed to cost about $8500, the |“Holiday Lodge” for the lake, farm or river costing $3000, and ithe “Honeymoon Home,” ideal .for the young couple who can spend $4500. |
Buildings Half Finished
Construction on the homes is already past the halfway mark. Two hundred workmen are making the Manufacturers’ Building steel girders ring with hammering and sawing to finish the homes by opening night. Next week| the crew will number 300 as the plore than 100 exhibitors complete their booths. Night shifts will be added. By midweek, the sodding and landscaping will have begun. Then the final two days before| the pre-.
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furnishing the homes to “move in”
iand by the 10 Indianapolis garden | clubs landseaping the grounds.
Because there are three hordes instead of one, the gardens will be larger and more elaborate than at any previous show. Each house will be surrounded by flowers, trees and shrubs suitable to its type.
Budget Is $30,000
The Town House was designed by Frederick Wallick and the other two homes by Leslie F. Ayres. | | The Indianapolis Home Builders! Association is building the To House. Arthur A. Smock is the contractor The Honeymoon Home| is being built by Sherill E. Arvin while the Holiday House is being constructed by the Indianapolis Home Show, Inc. This year the show is budgeted to cost $30,000 which is $3000 more than last year's exhibit. More timesavers, step-savers and home beautifiers will be displayed than at any previous show, according 3 J. Prank Cantwell who has mana ed every Home Show.
Predicts 100,000 Attendance
“Special emphasis is being paid to educational and construction exhibits which will serve to give interested families all the information they possibly can desire regarding every phase of home designing, modernization and furnishing,” he said. Because of the additional homes, increased gardens, ‘mofre exhibitors and a great interest nationally as well as locally, Mr. Cantwell expects
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BASEBALL IS TOPIC AT BOARD MEETING
The Indianapoils Real Estate Board forgot all about | lots, abstracts, and forced air furnaces yesterday to concentrate on|base hits, sacrifices, putouts and home’ runs. ‘The Board held a baseball rally at the Hotel Washington, | Edward Kepner, who has missed only one opening game here in 41 years, -recalled famous plays, sketched the history of modern rules and urged the Board members to join the bleacherites at the Indianapolis Indians firs Same on April 18 at Perry Stadiu He then conducted a uiz among two newspaper boys; each from the Star, the News and The Times. Two baseballs, two bats, a catcher’s mitt and a complete outfit were distributed among the boys. The boys were Don bdell and Carl Wyant, both of 30 E. Adler St., of The Times; Edward Wesling, 945 Stillwell St., and Fred 4 exander, 1305 Bates St. of the Star, and Ernest Whited, 530 W. bbott St.,
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AVERAGE USHA RENTAL $14.08
Slum Project Tenants Also Pay Added Charge For Utilities. |
Average monthly rentals of $14.08
lished for the 12,942 homes in the first 28 slum clearance and rehousing projects sponsored by the United States Housing Authority.
Monthly * shelter rentals average as low as $6.59 for a complete home in projects of the South to a top of $16.64 for a New York City dwelling. In all the projects, Administrator Nathan Straus pointed out, tenants pay a small additional sum for utilities. These “shelter-plus rentals” rdang from an average low of $10.98 a dwelling a month in the South to a high of $22.64 in New York City.
based on family annual income. No family is eligible to live in a public housing project if its income exceeds five times the rent, except very large families. Estimated incomes of families fo be rehoused .so far average $832 ia year, or slightly less than $70 ia month. The lowset average family income is $498 a year while the highest is $1060. The new homes in general are either row houses, fiats or apartments. Each dwelling: unit has a bath room, dining room or dinette and one, two or three bedrooms, according to size of family. In some of the very small, inexpensive units, sleeping quarters have been provided in the living room.
NORTH SIDE REALTY "SALES TOP MILLION
North Side Real Estate Board transactions of $118,500 reported this week brought the total since Jan. 1 to $1,057,785. Twelve homes were reported sold by: John H Elam for the Hall-Hot-tel Co., 5738 Guilford Ave; Ford V. Woods, 5434 N. Capitol Ave.; Lorin Driscoll, 5105 N. Capitol Ave.: Maten G. Gerdenich, 3505 Forest Manor Ave.; P. A. Havelick, 3851 Washington Blvd.; Joseph J. Argus .for American Estates Co., 5741 Wildwood Ave. and 5858 Forest Lane; R. E. Peckham and Mr. Argus, 5753 Washington Blvd.; Mr. Carr, 1408 N. Alabama St. and 6140 Primrose Ave.: and F. M. Knight, two bungaows north of Indianapolis on White River. Forest B. Kellogg reported he has contracted to build a house on a lot he sold at 5940 Central Ave. A 41acre farm near Brownsburg was sold by Mr. Carr. Eleven lots were sold by: Harry Robins, Williams Creek Addition; Jack Dyer and Mr. Knight in the 6400 block cf Park Ave.; F. C. Cash, lot 16 Haverford Addition, northwest corner of 47th St. and Kenwood. Ave., and a lot in Williams Creek; Mr. Woods, Warfleigh, and Mr. Driscoll, lot 229 in North Butler Terrace.
FHA APPLICATIONS SET NEW RECORD
A new record for the year in volume of applications for mortgage insurance was set by the Indianap-|2 olis office of the Federal Housing Administration last week. For the week ending March 29, a total of 245 applications for FHA mortgage insurance involving $1,010,200 were received, compared with 208 applications totaling $830,671 in the same week last year. - One hundred fifty-one applications totaling $693,500 were for the insurance of mortgages on new homes which had been built within a year from the date of. application. The remainder—94 applications involving $316,700—were for mortgage financing of existing homes. The week’s volume continued an upward trend begun after the first of the year.
. ‘ADEQUATE’ DEFINED “A hting” in a. bedroom means sufficient light by the bed for reading, softer lighting for general over-all illumination, and good light or the dressing table.
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Modernity with economy is a feature of the five-room brick veneer all-gas bungalow at 5320 Graceland Ave. built by Robert L. Mason and offered by Good Homes, Inc. 5380 Graceland Ave, The home is entered through an unusual solarium with circular windows. On the right is entrance to the single car garage. It has overhead doors, a cement floor and plas-
ter walls. To the left of the solarium are large double doors to the living room which has a stone fireplace. Off the living room are a dining room, kitchen, two bedrooms and a bath. The kitchen has built-in features. The floor linoleum is black marbelized type. Kitchen walls are painted white, while the ceiling is green.. White marbelized linoleum covers the cabinet tops. The bath has gray marbelized linoleum floor covering. The walls are gray glass pointed in red. Above the wainscoting the wall is painted white. The two bedrooms have large wardrobes. Rooms beside the bath and kitchen are papered with ceilings tinted to blend into the wall colors. In the basement are a social room, laundry and furnace room. The furnace, hot water heater and stove burn gas. Walls throughout are white enamel. Floors are oak. The home is open from 2 p. m. to 5 p. m. daily. It is built to sell for $7675. Pierre and Wright were the architects. It is one of 23 homes to be built by Mr. Mason in the same neighborhood. Nine are under way and two have been”sold. It carries out Mr. Mason’s idea for a planned community of homes
Mrs. Ernest Edwards by Oscar L. Cook of of the Seevpit Trust Co. Mr. Edwards is with, the State Automobile
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1. Mr. and Mrs. Vernon E. MacNabb have moved into their New England Colonial four-bedroom brick home at 7032 Warwick Road, which was built by Maten G. Gerdenich.. Lorin Driscoll sold the home.
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3. A feature of the five-room brick veneer bungalow at 5329 Graceland Ave! is its moderness plus economy.
It was built by Robert Homes, Inc., 5380 Graceland Ave.
It is shown daily from 2 p. m. to 5 p. m.
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rent. Mr. Mason is past president of the Indianapolis Home Builders Association, a member of the Real Estate Board and chairman of the building committee for the Home Builders “Town House” going up at the Manufacturers’ Building for the 19th annual Home Show.
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City. Rentals Inaugurates Department to | Aid Newlyweds.
INAUGURATION of a ‘newly=wed” department of City Rentals, Inc. 140 N. Delaware St., was anenounced today by Robert Allison, company president. After five years in the property management field, the firm S
lems for newly married or engaged couples. Office records show that most young persons | plane ning to be married begin house hunting before their wedding day. “It usually is the case,” Mr. Allison said, “that brides-elect com= mence their search shortly following announcement of their engagements. They ask us to ade vise them when a vacancy occurs in a certain section of the city so that final arrangements for their first home can be finished beore their honeymoon. “Many times they won't live anywhere except near their pare ents or friends.”
‘OWN-A-HOME CLUB’ T0 BE INSTITUTED
A “Own-a-Home Savings Club” will be introduced to prospective
home owners in the Indianapolis area during the 19th annual Home Show which opens April 12. Fermor S. Cannon, president of Railroadmen’s Federal Savings and Loan Association, said the local club, sponsored by Railroadmen’s, is part of a nation-wide movement “to aid prospective -home owners over their down payment hurdles through a thrift for a purpose plan.” There will be two types of memberships—active and associate. The former,, Mr. Cannon said, will be for those savers who start from “scratch” to put away funds for a down payment on a home, or, someone who has some money saved and
in the club to increase his savings. An associate member is anyone who has sufficient funds to reasonably assure financing of a home and who wishes advice on building. Mr. Cannon pointed out that while the program is especially designed for the small home owner who has most difficulty in raising a down payment, co-operative information on building and buying, which is to be supplied by the club to both types of members, will form an important part of the club’s activities. The club will be for persons wishing to buy or build a home within
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Wednesday luncheon meeting of the Apartment Owners’ Association in the Hotel Washington. Mr. Brown is director of lighting sales. for the Indianapolis Power & Light Co. and local representative of the Illuminating Engineering Society of America. The program will be in charge of E. Frank Brown, O the architects and builders division of the light company. ' A graduate of Purdue University in electrical engineering, Mr. Ross Brown has been engaged in lighting work for the electric company for 10 years. His talk will deal with fluorescent and other phases of proper illumination for home, office, factory and store. . | “Black light,” he says, “is a misnomer. We have found that some material gives off visible light when activated by an invisible form of energy such as ultra-violet rays. Giving off this visible light is known as ‘fluorescing,. There are many materials which will fluoresce, including your teeth or even cheap buttons. “That is the principle behind the fluorescent lighting which now is coming into general prominence. Fluorescent lighting is more efficient than present incandescent lighting and is available in various colors, opening a wider use for electric illumination in many fields. Less heat is given off in fluorescent illumination' than incandescent lighting of the same intensity.”
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Holden Tells Builders Program Should Be NationWide.
Thomas 8. Holden, President of the New York Building Congsess,
country is to have a volume of construction large enough to lift it from moderate recovery, it must once
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expansion.” Mr. Holden spoke at the annual dinner meeting of the Construction League of Indianapolis at the Hotel Lincoln. He also is chief statistician of the PF. W. Dodge Corp. and a
“Such a program need not be, and preferably should not be, a Governmental] program; but it must be activated by well-considered national policies, just as our past periods of economic expansion were,” he said. “Those who persist in thinking that economic expansion comes automatically through non-inter-ference of Government with business should be reminded of the land-expansion policies of a 100 years ago, by which the Government encouraged the people to migrate and colonize the vast territory that makes up continental United States.
Aids by Government Cited
“They should be reminded of the means by which Government opened opportunities for railroadizing and industrializing the country, by encouraging immigration, subsidizing railroads, creating the National Banking System and later the Federal Reserve System, enacting patent and protective tariff legislation and giving Federal aid to high-
f|way construction.
“I would not intimate that all problems have been solved or that all obstacles have been overcome. We haven't even tried to modernize our systems of taxation and public finance. “We have ahead of us the jobs of modernizing building codes, reducing foreclosure costs and re-
ing progress, of regularizing building labor employment and improving’ employer-employee relations in the building industry.
Says Lack of Market Is Key
“There probably has been, during the last 10 years, largely as a consequence of the constriction of the market, a considerable intensification of the kinds of “abuses which were first encouraged by the NRA and later prosecuted by the Department of Justice. “But I maintain that the failure of the industry to make a larger contribution to national prosperity than it has made is not due to any technical backwardness, but to the lack of rapidly increasing market demand or an ever-widening opportunity for increased volume.” Mr. Holden said that contrary to popular belief, assembly-line procedures long have existed in the building industry and the fact that prefabricated houses have not reached a broad national market is due to limitations in the potential market and not to technical deficiencies in the product:
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