Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 20 April 1951 — Page 29

FRIDAY, APR. 20, 1051

‘Dream’ Home Far Cry From First in 1922 -

Public Taste Swept Through Many Types

There are dream makers abroad in the Hoosier State, and the proof of this will come at 4:30 yr p. m, today. gi < That's when the curtain rises on the 26th annual Indianapolis Home B8how in Manufacturer's 4 Building, State Fair Grounds. Artists in the construction trade have taken their stone and wood, their steel and wire, and made De-

SOLD ON THEIR JOB—The Ewing Millers plan to copy features of the model home they designed for the Home Show when signer Ewing Miller's dream-home they build in Terre Haute. ,a reality in 17 days.

000 1s expected to view the pro-| 17 CNA TOWQAr pen House duct of these dream-makers-in-

overain—tne 1001 Tom 2d |S Growing, Says Miller

Country House of the Year. He Designed |has been developing here over a

‘A Long Jump’ ‘ 9’ | Home of Year {period of many years,” the young

This is a long jump from the first show held in 1922, when an estimated 67,000 persons flocked| It was Ewing Milter of Terre designer said. “It gives an atto the Fairgrounds to see and Haute who designed the 'Mld-m,epnere of flexibility tn modern hear what was new in building. |Vestern Home of the Year. homes and eliminates the feeling And the scope of designing, too,| Mr. Miller has foreseen a swing of moving from ‘box to box’ when has been broad and long in the|toward more ' privacy In the going from one room to another.” 26-year life span of the Home|Mmodern home, and has placed the] He added that modern archiShow. It has wound through {he living oom 2 ne rear of as terre. ean or 35 “warm and open spacious ranc | y Ope nS Masious Ot Te A native of Ohlo, Mr. Miller] “It is more adaptable and Williamsburg, the Colonial, Mod-|!% ap Army veteran of World fitting to our way of life,” he ern, English styles, Modular and War II and studied architecture gaiq, “We are developing our own Mediterranean. at the University of Pennsyl-architecture, and houses must go vania. He took his M. A. degree ,, sdapting themselves to the

“The trend of the ‘open’ home|

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And Indiana loved it. Some of |, ... a ed through twol . the homes, shown to the public for years and wor 8 (times. the first time on such an elabor-|n,gving to Terre Haute to join|« : {“open living” has proven itself 3'e scalp, were dupijeated in manylthe firm of Miler & Vrydagh, too oe to be on a “burst” architects. lo

parts of the state. Ben Olsen Jr. erected the dis-

play home of 1951, under spon-|la major design contest before home is made of glass sorship of Marion County Resi- walking off with top honors in the Indianapolis

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Mr. Miller said the trend . to

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