Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 10 May 1940 — Page 30

You Should

for a Bargain Like This! Pay As Little As

DOWN

AND

I/» Acre Garden Land

You pay the balance in small amounts monthly — LESS THAN RENT! Note these features: ® Approved by the Federal Housing Administration! ® Choice of 22 Plans! ® 4 Rooms, Bath, Garage! Kitchen with Modern Built-In Sink and Cabinets! Plumbing and Sanitary System! Full Concrete Block Foundation! ® Convenient Location! ® Dozens of Other Features!

How to Get There:

East on Washington to Post Road, then north to 21st St. or east on 10th St. to Post Road, north to 21st St.

] 3 1

We Can Also Build on Your Own Lot on Long-Term Payments

CONGRESS

A Cape Code Cottage is one of several hundred home designs available through the small house

service bureau of the Architectural Guild of Indianapolis. It was designed by Orval E. Williamson, local architect, who made this sketch. The Guild is a group of architects formed within the membership of the Indiana Society of Architects. Guild members have designed the Indiana State Library, Indiana School for the Blind, the Milo H. {Stuart Memorial Building at Tech | High School, the Coliseum, the | Broadway Methodist Church, In- | diana University buildings and local | public schools. Guild officers are: John R. Kelley, president; Frederick Wallick, vice president, and George Caleb Wright, secretary. Mr. Williamson's cottage is designed to cost about $4500. It has a living room, two bedrooms, a

CONSTRUCTION CO. ha Ge AS Css PL eR: v Lae le

BUILT-IN CABINETS

Window and Door Screens ESTIMATES FREE

BALL & DURBIN 525 Mass. Ave. LI-2184

Woodruff House Paint

be” Reg. $3.25 Gal. Ld $2.59 WESTERN HARDWARE

8407 W. Mich. at Tibbs. BE-2028

in 5-gal lots.

kitchen, dinette, bath and attached

rage. Placement of the garage plus long low lines helps to eliminate the

Service Bureau Home

Several Hundred Designs Available for Builders

“boxy” look that houses of this size usually have. Sleeping quarters and the bath are well separaated from the living room so that privacy is afforded each portion of the house. The bedrooms are of generous size with large wall space and with larger than usual closets. The bedrooms and bath are at the rear of the house. While the dinette is not a separate room, opening into the living room, it tends to increase the living rocm appearance and yet function as a separate unit. The kitchen has plenty of cabinet space and a recessed broom closet. The service door beside the garage leads to the basement, the garage and kitchen, while the doorway near the left corner opens into a vestibule and coat closet off the living room. Mr. Williamson suggests two color schemes, one with white walls and trim, slate blend color roof, and rust colored shutters. As an alternate scheme he suggests warm gray walls, white trim and deep green shutters.

CLEANING URGED FOR HEATING PLANTS

The heating plant should be including in the spring house-cleaning

program. The moisture in basements which

{results from April showers |cause damage to soot-lined heating surface. Soot, especially when moist, has a corrosive tendency. .

The annual cleaning of the plant

of the firebox and flues, cleaning land removal of the smokepipe, greasling the edges of all doors, checking land oiling of all draft controls, and cleaning and flushing out of the oil tank.

Built-in KITCHEN CABINETS

= » -

Carpets, Armstrong Linoleum and

Linowall. See Our Large Display

(Jordan's Cabinet & Linoleum C

0. 7 W. Washington St. RI-0607

MODERNIZE YOUR

BATHROOM and KITCHEN

FOR $500 A MONTH NO DOWN PAYMENT 4603 College Ave Call HU-2781

PAINT

AND

PAPER

THIS SPRING

ENTERPRIZE JS PAINTS | UNITIZED WALLPAPER § We Stock a Complete line of Both

G CONTRACTORS @ Elsea-Taylor Wallpaper Co.

247 N. Delaware RI-6%57

- |

2 FAGAN'S SEED STORE

To our customers who depend on us for reliable garden needs, Our new location N. E. corner Delaware & Ohio Sts. and North Side 54th & Winthrop.

(OPEN SUNDAYS) SEEDS, BULBS, PLANTS FERTILIZERS, PEAT MOSS MA. 2170 BR. 3060

FOR MOTHER'S Soy

DAY

GIVE MOTHER AN EVERGREEN . « «+ A Lasting Gift WIEGAND’S EVERGREENS And Shrubs Are Superior

ROCK GARDEN Plants | and PERENNIALS Large Clumps

20¢ and

bloom about

Our Landscape Architects Are At Yo No Charge for This Servi TA-

ve Li

POTTED ROSES

will be budded and In

A.Wiegand’'s Sons Co.

Nursery, 26th and Kessler Blvd.

BUY FROM A LEGITIMATE NURSERY-IT COSTS LESS

, ready to plant May is.

ur Command. ce.

009% ANTIVA ‘AVILIAYOFHV 4 9

whers

® THE ® THEY LAST LONGE

GIVE YOUR HOME A MOD- ¢ TERIOR With LONG LAST- /

Are Saying

INT NOW

INTERIOR AND EXEASY TO APPLY

Paints and Wallpapers

WE RECOMMEND CONTRACTORS

Although we are NOT in the contracting business we can recommend reliable men to you—men who are honest, efficient and KNOW the deco-

rating business.

Special 30-Day Offer

Woodwork High Gloss Hard-Drying Floor

Apco House Paint...$2.45 gal.

Enamel ............ 8% qt

Varnish. .......$1.25 1, gal.

Complete Line—Paints, Wallpaper Plenty of Parking” Space

ADVANCE

338 N. Capitol

FACTORY STORE

PAINT CO.

LI1.7388

may |

$2.60 single gals. of th include a thorough cleaning].

BUILDING COSTS ARE DOWN HERE

6-Room House Can Be Built Now for $5486, Bank ‘Review Says.

The cost of building a six-room house in Indianapolis dropped to the lowest point since 1936, and was down $480 from April, 1939, the Federal Home Loan Bank Review showed today. In April, 1936, it cost $5458 to construct a six-room house here while last month one could be built for $5486. Construction cost rose from the 1936 figure to $5966 in 1939. Cubic foot cost in April, 1939, was $0.249 while last month it was $0.229.

Two-Floor Home Example

The house on which costs are based is a detached six-room ‘home of 24,000 cubic foot volume, with a living room, dining room, kitchen and lavatory on the first floor three bedrooms and a bath upstairs. Exterior is wide-board siding with brick and stucco finish. The house includes all fundamental structural elements, an attached* one-car garage, an unfinished cellar, an unfinished attic, a fireplace, essential heating,

| plumbing and electric wiring, and|

| complete insulation. It does not include wallpaper, nor other wall or ceiling finish, lighting fixtures, refrigerators, water heaters, ranges, screen, weather stripping nor window shades.

Insurance Is Included

Reported cost includes—in addition to material and labor costs— compensation insuraifice, an allowance for contractor's overhead and transportation of materials, plus 10

‘| per cent for builder's profit.

It does not include the cost of land nor of surveying, the landscaping, walks and driveways, architect’s fee, the building permit, financing charges nor sales costs.

IRONWORK REFLECTS NEW ORLEANS CHARM

The quaint charm of New Orleans and Mobile homes may be recaptured easily by persons modernizing old houses through the use of cast iron second-floor verandas and other ornamental iron work. Attractive designs which authentically reflect’ the old French influence now are being offered for sale and may be obtained to meet practically any specification. Models are manufactured for use on both large and small homes. Many old homes are architecturally adaptable to the New Orleansgdesign, and, by adding a cast iron veranda and making other changes, it is often possible to achieve the effect at comparatively little cost.

MIRROR ‘ADDS’ ROOM

A softly tinted mirror above the buffet will give coolness and space to the dining room. The mirror reflects the opposite side of the room, adding spaciousness and will subdue the colors of the walls.

STOP TERMITES

Call Rlley 8546

TERMINIX CO.

& Builders Bldg

GEO. J. EGENOLF MACHINIST 18, W. South LI-6212

518 Architects

in April

LOW-COST HOME BUILDING GAINS 60% THIS YEAR

Hoess Brothers of Hammond Leaders in ‘Basic House’ Idea.

By JOHN W. LOVE Times Special Writer WASHINGTON. May 10.— The fastest-growing industry in the United States. save possibly aircraft, is the low-cost house. Though definitions differ on what is low-cost in a house, there is no missing the fact of the great increase this year in the construction of dwellings of $3000 or less. Most of these houses between $2500 and $3000 are of frame and siding. The “Cape Cod” style dominates from Maine to Texas. The distinctly “modern,” with flat roof and such ideas, has not extensively invaded this price bracket except in California. Prefabrication, it has been found so far, does not offer more advantages than large builders have been able to achieve in places like Long Island and northern New Jersey by buying lumber in shipload lots ready cut to their dimensions, other materials in carloads, and equipment manufactured to their private brands. In these and other large operations, where the builder has 10 or more houses under construction at once, the interior floor plans are likely to be identical, but not the exteriors.

Basic Plans Few

For $2500 the basic plans are few. Some rooms must be combined, as the dining and living rooms, or the dining room and the kitchen. Often an extra room can be included in the attic, but it is usually left to be finished later. The operating unit of 10 houses under construction at once seems to be pretty standard the country over. This number is just large enough that one job can be finished before the new crew comes along. One idea which has been taking hold is the “basic house,” the dwelling which provides shelter for the family, but leaves to it the work of buying and installing some or all of the fitting and finishing the interior. Sometimes the purchaser even nails up his own wallboard on the partition joists after he moves

Hoosiers Developed Idea

The four Hoess brothers, operators of a large machine shop at Hammond, Ind, developed the scheme successfully in trying to put on the market a piece of somnolent real estate. Buyers, most of them factory workers, got an acre of ground and the shell or elements of a four or five-room house which they finished themselves. Prices ran from $1600 to $2500, depending on the degree of completion of the house at the time it was sold. About 50 houses were sold last year. One reason for this year’s growth of dwellings at $2500 to $3000 is that | factory employees have a working | week of five days or less, and can! afford the time it takes to drive to distant suburbs.

REAL ESTATE BOARD OBSERVES FARM DAY

George Winfrey of Alexandria, Ind, WFBM farmer-philosopher, spoke yesterday in the Hotel Washington as the Indianapolis Real Estate Board celebrated Farm Day. He was introduced by Henry 8S. Wood, WFBM farm editor. The Hoosier Haymakers, string quartet, played for the luncheon. Officials of the Indiana Farm Bureau and its affiliated companies were guests of the Board. Mr. Winfrey said there were three false rainbows that many persons chased: good luck, getting something for nothing, and another man’s chance. “There's no such thing as good| luck,” he said. “We never get | something for nothing and persons who say ‘if I were just in his shoes’ are just fooling themselves.” The only real rainbows, he said, are service and worship. “Youll find real gold at the end of the rainbow of service to others and faith in God.”

FOR THE BEST RESULTS Permanent and attractive planting is the result of

using the “Right Plant in the Right Place.”

Give a Potted Plant or Flowering Shrub for MOTHER'S DAY

We will gladly send a man to help you plan your landscape work. No obligation.

OPEN 7 DAYS A WEEK

EAGLE CREEK

NURSERY CO

FREE PHONE

Indpls. Service, Dial 22 NEW AUGUSTA 4 or 2¢ 82nd Street and Lafayette Rd. (U. 8S. Road No. 52

LUM

LUMB

140 W ho!

TEL aa

BER

ER CO.

THE INDIANAPOLIS' TIMES

Cape Cod Colonial Sold

Mr.

Cape Cod Colonial at 5757 Rolling Ridge Road. sold by Gregory & Appel, Inc. Mr. Jordan is superintendent of the paint and lacquer plant of the Advance Paint Co.

and Mrs. L. T. Jordan have purchased the four-bedroom

Times Photo.

It was built and

Slum Clearance, Housing

Near Topin'What to Do’ Poll

Slum-clearance and better housing is ranked among the top three non-military activities “on which Government should spend the most money” in an independent survey conducted by Fortune magazine. The survey, extended over a cross-section of “both prosperous and poor” among ‘the nation’s population, indicated that 88 per cent of those polled regard the slumclearance program of almost equal importance with old-age pensions in reducing poverty and unemployment. Various activities which the Government should carry on were placed in 17 subdivisions or categories for the purposes of the canvass. Analysis of the answers, from which the “don’t knows” and miscellaneous responses were thrown out, revealed the following division of opinion among 13,062 votes as to which Federal activity should receive the most financial support: The Navy The Air Force......v..cvovee sesaune Providing work relief Providing old-age pensions Slum-clearance and better housing Training skilled labor Reforestation and soil conservation Flood control The Army......csssesssnns Sesrant en Subsidizing farmers Big national highways Training civilian pilots Controlling farm crop pests Airports Removing poor farm

cultivation .............. Laan a Controlling farm production Federal power plants

In the initial step the survey asked “on which four of these things do you think the Government is warranted in spending the most money?” The score was: Reducing poverty and unemployment .

land from

Increasing armaments Dealings with agr Public sonstructio

“Thus,” said Fortune, “the public regards the solution of the domestic human problem, the one which was the most pressing back when

the New Deal came into office, as |

still the most vital to our national security.” Fortune then asked: “Of these following things having to do with reducing poverty and unemployment, which do you think is, or might be, the most important on which to spend money in order to

WE CARRY A COMPLETE LINE OF GENERAL

BUILDING MATERIALS F. J. SCHUSTER COAL CO. INC.

824 E. Troy Ave. DR-3000

FENCE

for EVERY PURPOSE Call LI. 8531 for Free Estimating Service on Material Only or Erection Complete Easy Payments if Desired

SEARS. ROEBUCK AND CO

build up a better and stronger nation?” The score was: Cld-age pensions. ......vvvvevivvnnns 60 Slum-clearance and better housing.. 58 Training skilled labor 56 Work relief Similar questions brought the following results: For increasing armaments: The Navy serasaseng. The Air Force..... “essa estesesranee ¥

Spending for agriculture: Reforestation and soil conservation..

Subsidizing farmers A guide to public works: Flood control sessasenes Big national highways.....cveoeeeee Airports Federal power plants “These answers undoubtedly contain the key to popular spending policies for the future,” said Fortune. “In the preservation of human values, which are rated the most important, such basic measures as old-age security and good housing are rated above work relief and Federal training of labor.”

VENETIAN BLINDS

Of the Better Kind Custom Built By

ACE BLIND CGO.

646 Virginia Ave. DR. 0300 |

2 62

{

DEALS ON N. SIDE TOP $1,500,000

12 Houses Reported Sold: 14 Lots Disposed Of, Board Told.

Transactions of $115,550 reported by the North Side Real Estate Board this week pushed the total transactions for the year $1,500,000 mark. y Dash: ie Twelve houses were reported sold. Realtors and the house locations are: Warren M. Atkinson, 3217 Broadway; Jack C. Carr, 3357 Colorado; William L. Bridges, 5841 Oxford St.; Ford V. Woods, 51 N. Addison St.; Howard W. Fieber, 5325 Kenwood Ave.; ‘ Joseph J. Argus, 5802 Guilford Ave. and 5953 Washington Blvd.; John H. Elam for Hall-Hottel Co., 923 E. 39th St. and 519 E. 58th St.; Forest M. Knight, 3540 Watson Road, 747 Audubon Road and 1926 Harding St. Mr. Carr reported sale of a North Butler Terrace lot; F. C. Cash said he had sold a Washington Blvd. Terrace lot and six in Meridian Kessler Terrace; Thomas PF. Carson sold a Warfleigh lot and one in Arden Addition. Mr. Knight sold two Warfleigh lots, while Mr. Cash and Lorin Driscoll together sold eo lot in Butler Terrace. Bert L. Edwards said he sold in Arden Addition lot.

FORD FENCE

Lawn-Estate-Factory TERMS ~°,POWN, FATMINT

Portable Pens—Kennel Panels BR. 5441-—Night, BR. 0317 6544 Cornell Frze Estimates

FRIDAY, MAY 10, 1940

Power Lawn Mowers Hand Lawn Mowers

Lawn and Golf Course Equipment Sharpening Parts Small Farm and Garden Tractors Winkler Automatic Stokers 43 8. DELAWARE BST. INDIANAPOLIS

C. E. GRIENER COMPANY

Repairing

MA-4538

Baxriler Economy — Beauty

Save! Buy Direct

at NEW LOW

Prices

¢ Ball Bearing Rollers. ® Adjustable Shelves e Baked Enamel Finish. ® Fully Insulated Deadened. Visit Our Factory Display Expert Planning Service No Obligation

Budget Plan If Desired

LBarier

Steel Equipment Co. G1 NAPA FT IH BX TX)

Steel Kitchen Cabinets

From the Manufacturer

and Sound

POTTED ROSES FOR MOTHER'S DAY °

25¢

SPECIAL

SALE

Cherry & Fruit Trees FRENCH LILACS SHRUBS

Drive Out Today

POTTENGER N

Take Advantage of These Week-End Specials

34th St.

HA-2524-J

Lafayette Road

URSERY

FENCE

Lawn-Estate-Farmé Factory

CO.

RI-5985 BE-0617-J

JA : Day RI. 2030. Nite

54” Cabinet and

4-drawer steel cabinet; cast iron acid resist ing sink; double drain board.

We are closing out. Supply is limited!

SHIRLEY CORP.

St.

Sink

$3 750!

EASY TERMS

330 E. Joe St.

(1 LIKE TO HANG

u. Ls

BECAUSE - % W's WALL TESTED % Wa 'Stvie vesreo % It's SUN TESTED

% It's WASH TESTED

Paperhangers know their customers are ase sured of satisfaction when they buy "UNI. TIZED" wall papers, Guaranteed tests of

quality plus @ wide selection of patterns ond colors are certain to please the most dis. criminating of home owners,

CENTRAL

WALL PAPER & PAINT CORP. 127 E. WASH. ST.

® TITLE INSURANCE * ESCROWS

CAPITAL OVER

WE SPEGIALIZE EXCLUSIVELY IN — | ® ABSTRACT OF TITLES

150", E. MARKET ST. PHONE MARKET 3448

WALLPAPER|

Allisonville Road at 46th St.

NEW HOME IS LOCATED AT

Out Allisonville Road (State Road 13) Foilow the Markers

BR.5495

ee’ Special! Saturday and HILLSDALE GARDEN SHOP

Sunday

ALLISONVILLE ROAD AT 46TH ST.

PANSIES swiss Giant .......... each Be DELPHINIUM English Hybrids . 10€ each ROSES Everblooming, Potted .... 715¢ each GERANIUMS In Colors ...... 2B€ each

This Year Plant Hillsdale Roses

ILLES RALE and GARDEN SHOP

Are You Going to Bulld a Home?

BOB FOSTER

His Expert Help and Advice Is Yours FREE

10% R. S.

1700 Kentucky

DOWN n Cash or Lot

Plans, FHA Financing and Builder Furnished

Foster Lumber Co.

Ave, BE

STORAGE

‘MOVING HOGAN

TRANSFER & STORAGE CORPORATION

- . - Albhot ~ | Er

MODERNIZE BEAUTIFY

® STANDARD PLUMBING FIXTURES * “AMERICAN” HEATING SUPPLIES ® PETRO-NOKOL OIL BURNERS, STOKERS ® AIR CONDITIONING

CENTRAL SUPPLY C0.

210 S. CAPITOL AVE.

AND

THE INTERIOR OF YOUR HOME With

Let Us Help You

If you really want a

YOU.

Your inquiry will pla tion.

ak - > yo iY » ¢ B®

RI-2388 [

Answer This Question!

home, our officers will

deem it a pleasure to see what can be done for

Let them suggest ways and means to home ownership, in the surest and easiest ways.

ce you under no obliga-

Why not call THIS WEEK.

a peary qa TITY