Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 13 September 1940 — Page 16

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THE INDIAN

FALL BUILDING | SPURT LOOMS

Increase Indicated by August Applications for FHA Mortgages.

™ roe F The large volume of applications FHA mortgage insurance during

indicate an unusually acseason in truction, R. Earl

administrator of

home conIndiana

housing

Peters, the uthorityv. said today Although the August Well distributed country,

gains were throughout ti expanding like

areas of ndustrial activity, Indianapolis, NA ~~ Showed the most substantial gains.

he said 15

30 King Ave, . . . has seven closets,

N. SIDE GROUP'S SALES ARE BRISK

APOLIS TIMES

» New Cape Cod Cottage

“ 15 Homes and 7 Lots: B

~ Sign Contracts for Four | More Dwellings. |

Members of the North Side Real|tors this week reported a brisk market for houses. Fifteen weie sold. The realtors also reported the sale of seven lots and the signing of contracts to build tour houses. Chairman John W. Robbins, reported these sales: 4218 20 Carrollton Ave. 6033-35 College Ave. 6500 Cornell St. 3632 N. Iilinois St. and 4255 Clarendon Road, all by Jack C. Carr: 1402 E. 59th St. by the Hall-Hottel Co;

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For the week ending Aug. 24 there Were 4904 aplication: or “mortga ye Insurance on homes to be built under the FHA p#bgram throughout the country. This was an merease f 60 per cent over the correspond- that of Ing week of 1939 and was the 1939 by almost 49 reatest reported for any week since Peters pointed out. ® last spring. Construction was he aut upward swing began FHA 1 the week ending Aug. 10 with the nation during 461 4 new-home applications, followed | Aug. 24, he said 2

and 4904

total of these three weeks

per

begun

by 4855 for the week ending Aug. 17 the following week. The exceeds the corresponding Wa oF

cent, under | by inspection on 3790 houses over the week ending

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SALE PRICE

BE are papered in light brown with a

EE walls and a gray dado.

£ windows, fireplace.

gE built-in

B= black and white.

BF wood with a spruce finish and doors

ET ‘oundation says.

& Graves; 7137 Pendleton Pike by

4 BEDROOMS UP Mr. Robbins: 152 Buckingham Drive, 618 E. 75th St. and 5825 Haverford ¥ St. by Joseph J. Argus for .mer- | 3 DOWNSTAIRS ican Estates Co.:

Ave. by John G. Dyer, Sherman Drive and 706 W. 43d St. Thomas F. Carson. Lot sales were: Two,in Ulen Park Addition by Mr. Carr; one in North

King Ave. House May Be Butler Terrace by Fay C. Cash; one n Fall Creek Highlands and one in Seen by Appointment: Sold Doro: Hills by Ford Vv. Woods, and To Aibert Hausers.

cne at 76th and Pennsylvania Sts and one on 84th St. west of College Willis J. Croan has built three-bedroom brick veneer Colonial

Ave. by Harry Robbins. at 1530 King Ave. for Mr. and Mrs.

Robert L. Mason said he had contracted to build homes at 62d and Albert Hauser. It may be inspected by appointment.

Olney Sts... 733 Berkley Road, in Williams Creek and at 3515 N. KeyThe entranceway faces east and opens into a reception hall. Arch-

stone Ave wavs divided the living and dining rooms from the hall. which has two

NEW BOOKS GIVE TIPS Son ON HOMES, GARDENS

New books of interest to home and garden planners which may be bor(rowed from Central Library or The living room (12x20 feet in gush the neighborhood branches size) «has a white Colonial mantel, “REFURBISHING THE HOME’ with a black glazed tile hearth and by Carl G. B. Knauf (McGraw facing. There are four living room Beok Co, New York). As the first . step the author discusses plans and one on each side of the yudgets. Later room spaces are re[shaped, and built-in features, floors jand walls are considered. There are chapters on home cabinetry and carpentry, upholstery and home handicrafts. New Pamphlets “NEW BRICK HOMES” (L. F Garlinghouse, Topeka, Kas.) Plans of attractive houses, large and small, one and two stories, All employ some type of brick for the exterior either alone or in combination with other materials. "BEAUTIFYING GROUNDS” (Southern Pine Association, New Orleans, la.) The householder who likes to putter about the garden and who can make his own trellises, garden furniture, lattice fences and pergolas, here will find photographs and working de{signs | "SHADE TREE {Robert Thompson (CCC, National Park Service, U. S. Department of the Intertor, Washington, D. C.) Advice upon when and how to prune shade trees so as to assure both health and beauty, “BRUSHING UP ON BEAUTY” (Lowe Bros.). Questions and answers about how to paint houses—interiors and exteriors—and floors, furniture, woodwork, boats. bicvcles, automobiles, Silos, swimming pools and still other things

WIDEN USAGES FOR FLUORESCENT LIGHTS

Fluorescent lighting is now possible in many places where the large tubes previously available could not be placed, such as Pullman berths. cabins of airliners, in closets, bed lamps, and over mirrors and portraits in the home. A new fluorescent lamp is only nine inches and about the thickness of a man's finger. It takes SIX watts of current, and is made in two colors, one approximately daylig ht

this

: cream ceiling, while the dining room E has the same ceiling paper with blue

Bath on First Floor, Too

The downstairs bedroom has a light blue ceiling and walls of a figured rose paper. A complete bath with shower is on the first floor. It is finished in vitreous china with chrome fittings. Tile walls run up four feet from the floor. The ceiling and drop walls are in blue, The upstairs powder room off the hall at the top of the inclosed stairway is finished in light blue. All woodwork is stained walnut except in the Kitchen. There the two-compartment sink is flanked by broom closels. Beneath the sink are wood cabinets with blue E marbleized tops. The kitchen is in

THE HOME

Hardwood Floors PRUNING” by A

The floors throughout are hard-

fare inner-framed with a walnut stain finish. The full basement has burning furnace, an automatic water heater and stationary tubs. There is enough space for a partitioned recreation room. The house sits on a 57x75-foot lot

and has an attached garage.

URGES HOME BUYING AS MEANS TO SAVE

Pointing out that the family annually spends one-quarter of its income for housing, the Indiana Homes Foundation urges home as a means of saving

a coal-

average

ownership money whiie paving rent. When vou rent a home, the Foundation says, the money 1s gone When this money is applied to the purchase of a home, it provides housing and builds up a saving at the same time, the group contends. The Foundation warns, however against exceeding the “one-fourth-of -vour-income” rule in buying a! house. Studies of foreclosure records | during depressions indicate that the majority af persons forced to give up their homes had exceeded that limit 1m monthly payments, the

long,

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Indiana Limestone Used in

Dwelling at 5367 Kenwood

Indiana limestone has been used for the facing of the new Cape Cod cottage at 5367 Kenwood Ave. being offered by the United Mortgage Co. H. R. Cox was the contractor. Above the

pm to 9 p.m.

is an unusually large closet with a window. The north front bedroom is done in a two-tone dusty rose with a contrasting, paper having a blue background panel and rose floral design in the center. The master bedroom has satin striped paper on the sidewalls with a drop ceiling of white background and small aqua colored flower clusters The ceiling paper carries on down for the alcove walls.

white wood which - also is used on The flower boxes Shutters of the color are to he Dorothy Shepard {chosen soft warm colors in deco{rating the interior. Background of used in the

stone is

siding the white

dormers. are In burgundy, same added, Woodrum has

Black Sidewalls

The bath has black glass Yose With a Co. waiis trimmed in agate green with , a large plaque set in above the lonial pattern in a brocade effect. tyh. The tile floor carries out the Matching companion paper used in color scheme of black, green the hall has a stripe relieved by a White. Both baths have showers. y Colonial fixtures are used bouquet, { throughout. | The full basement has a social room with a stone fireplace. The home is heated bv an oil burning furnace and is air-conditioned. The two-car garage has Hartford City overhead doors All floors are of oak stained medium walnut. The kitchen linoleum is laid over plywood to prevent buckling

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For Featured House, 5367 Kenwood. JACK DAVIS

Electrical Contractor 35 S. Dearborn, CH-1067,

the wallpaper living

room is a light dusty

small Colonial Has The large living room has a stone fireplace with built-in book nooks side. There are four windows, and the two French doors open onto the side porch. The dinhas a wall covering of powder blue and rose. A plain background is used below the dado

Stone Fireplace

on either

ing room

above

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and on the ceiling with an unusual lado. In one corner there is a built-in cabinet. The room has wall, = — —— Off the dining room is the kitchen » an entrance into the two-car ga- Landscaping rage. Two kitchen walls are solid center of one. Above the sink is AT 5367 KENWOOD a window, The tile drain is white The remaining wall space is paint- | ed in canary vellow. front is a large bedroom decorated for use either as a den or bedroom TE I with a Colonial scenic pattern. The 4 ther three walls and ceilings are Phos County other th alls and CcelUINgS are | gonq Street and Lafayette

companion floral design the three windows on the opposite with both an outside entrance and white cabinets with a sink in the IN THE FEATURED HOUSE with a splash of roval blue glass Opposite the living room in the One wall has a neutral background a plain pale green. OC. § Road 5%Y.

2361 Road

Bathroom Adjoins

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bath upstairs. In the second floor {hall is a large linen closet. The south front bedroom has a satin finish green Colonial paper. There

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TOWN HOUSE OPEN FOR 2 MORE WEEKS

The Town House, one of the centerpieces of the 1940 Indianapolis Home Show now rebuilt in Brockton, will be open for about | two more weeks. Mrs. Alberta Richards will be at [the home daily from 2 p. m. until 9 p. m. to welcome visitors. The home | was built by the Indianapolis Home Builders’ Association under the supervision of Arthur Smock. At the Home Builders’ semimonthly meeting this week, a nom[inating committee was appointed to {select officers for the coming year. ASS Committee members are Carl Linde- GL mann, Clyde Pike and Robert In the Featured House Mason. AT | William Murray Huse, realtor and 5367 KENWOOD builder, was taken into the organ- Rv ihe (ization. Walter Evans of the mem[bership committee discussed changes Grear Marble & to be made in the by-laws of the : organization. Tile Co. RI-1301 Missonri St,

GEO. J. EGENOLF MACHINIST 181, W. South LI-6212

¥ TILE BATHS

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