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SUNDAY, JULY 20, 1952
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Real Estate—
It Started = | BEE With Beer
By DON-TEVERBAUGH 0 Times Real Estate Editor
EVER WONDER how things like air conditioning, for example, ever got started? Believe it or not, air conditioning was born because a man wanted a frosty, frothy | stein of beer.
And yet today a long glass of] chilled brew is still one of the na- have an immediate study with. intion's top cooler-offers. [tention of reallocation of federal, Robert Portner, a brewer in state and municipal funds—is a Alexandria, Va., in 1880 patented corker. a simple air-cooling gadget made, We need it, I wonder if we'll] to cool and purify beer and ever get it? adapted to cool air, | All the unit did was blow air Colors for Roofs over metal refrigerating pipes in| such a way as to condense most of the air’s moisture into water, cooling and purifying the air.
Now that houses are painted {other than white, roofs have| {jumped on the band wagon and He first became interested in 0 lable In paste! colors.) conditioning when he swapped al, 8 all part of what color ean ' going grocery for a slipping 0 for your new home—or Fecon-|
brewery, Faced with a problem |ditioned old house.
of keeping the brew cool to retain] The colors are subtle and neu-| its taste, young Portner put his tral—not like bon-bons. It's espe-| imagination to work and came up cially appealing on the low slung, | with what air conditioning ex- moderns and ranchos. They also | perts say is the foundation for the Make homes look larger. Most | now booming industry. popular shades are red, green and
blue pastels. A Break for Gl Joe
President Truman this week
PART OF THE HILLSIDE— | the terrain at 8150 N. Pennsylva
signed into law a bill giving Here | 5 Case bor
icemen more time to escape the capital gains taxes on the sale of | their homes.
ontemporary Homes
A year ago Congress lifted the “I'he best t for build-| e best argument for build-
capital gains tax on the profit a ing & “contemporary” home is that | ’ e is that | home owner might make on the; gives people a chance to express |
sale of his home if he builds or|their own needs and tastes,” says buys another of equal price within!J. Frank Cantwell, a man who's| a year. seen housing trends come and go
This new law extends the time 29 Managing a for servicemen to four y8ars be-|FCtor of the In-
t |dianapolis Home Fond the Sate of the sale of theif Sy ow since its
start in 1922. “In. the phst every time a new
facilities for the particular family that will live in it, It is simple without being elemental. It is economical because it makes the most effi- : cient use of space and materials. It will be deathless as
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and the projected needs of the |came popular we owner,” says Mr. Cantwell. saw blocks upon blocks of th {same type of house. There was [little attempt to suit the family to the home. Despite the fact every family has different hobbies, room irequirements, attitudes toward : ——everyone had to literally! ] a Ba yo ivi house that Pe contemporary homes that run + was being built, he said. (the risk of being too common-
Mr. Cantwell observed the con-|Place or too fantastic, but that \temporary home as an “emancipa-|1 a matter of taste. In the tion” of all the yearnings that/main, contemporary design |people have felt for years when [throws away the rules and sub{they hoped to build a house, stitutes freedom of expression,”
“There are no hidebound rules ar. Cantwell saig, { mands ‘can be for a contemporary home—you've| The American people should lowered the an- Igot the whole world of materials|"¢ grateful for the advent of the nual rate of construction willito choose from plus the use of Contemporary house. Though have to drop to a level below 1.2/space that is just right for your Americans. are avowed individ- ! i” iualists,” he commented, “there million per year and stay under| family,” he said. lare so few things we buy where this level for three straight | Mr. Cantwell, who is currently we get a chance to express ourmonths, Mr, Bauer said. {building the 1952 Home Show selves. 0 We usually just get al He warned that when and If gouge at the new Woodlawn Golf choice of brand. But in the most Regulation X is relaxed the spurt cup Addition, commented that! important investment that a lot in buying activity would probably the contemporary home was un-|of us will ever make, a home, we push the home building pace up| gqoubtedly “forced” by present-day have the opportunity to plan and over the 1.2 million per year level economics. {buy one that suits our exact and automatically impose the “People can’t afford to pay for SPecifications.” credit control again. |space they can’t use. Instead, they | He pointed out that today’s Those buyers who choose t0 nave to have a house with built- contemporary designed home dewait are also risking higher costs ins, multi-purpose rooms and pos-| livers better living with greater and less selection to choose from. |
|sibly a floor plan that allows for|USe of indoor-outdoor space, large
To purchase now, even With high-|exnansion as either the family or Blass areas, innovations in heat-|
er down payments, will of course pap pocketbooks grow. {ing plants, | mgean lower Monthly Payments to; “Sure, the contemporary home| The Right Answers mest, he pointed out. is a by-product of the inflation! “People have learned to REE) period, but it’s here to stay. In- for different, more efficient, more flation only hastened the advent|economical ways of building and] Smaller New Homes lof contemporary building. People/they are finding the right anThe day of the larger new home have Deen freed from old-Tash.BWers" he sad. wild 2 ‘eon ioned house conceptions — that’s rery ” is almost at an end, according to the essence of ae ary de- temporary house? Mr. Cantwell sign,” he explained. says certainly, emphasizing that
den magazine. ; 3 every home owner deserves the “ii 3 The Home Show dean pointed opportunity to have a dwelling Our ways of living are chang- out that contemporary houses “tailored” to his particular reing, servants are getting scarcer were easier to take care of and
laxation of Regulation X before you buy your new home, better forget about it. :
is one thing to one person, something else to another. i
Free From Convention “That's the beauty of it, - For the first time, we have seen home design freed from convention. Certainly, there will continue to
Bauer, president of the” Marion Mr. Cantwell County Residen- ATTA
tial Builders.
tions imposed by § Congress, credit § controls on home buying have not been lifted and; may not be lifted3 at all this year, he said. . Before down payment de-
Mr. Bauer
These Homes Are
“A contemporary home is | ‘today’s home’ that embodies | the right design, materials and °
to style because it will be built FE ’ 5 a : to the terrain, the surroundings ° : a RE i 3 ds
‘Tight’ Money Fails To Stop New Homes
| Clearing all mortgage and downpayment hurdles ‘in its, "path, home building in metropolitan Indianapolis sprinted into the second half of the year well ahead of its '51 pace,
records from the Marion County and city building depart- § ments showed this week. 1 | At the halfway point « total of residential building. A year ago {1828 housing units had been| April they had 277 starts. started—1114 in Marion County Indianapolis with 488 starts and 714 within city limits. climbed from 50th to 45th rating. A year ago at this time the South Bend was third in In{county had 1102 residential starts diana with 300 starts; Evansville jand the city 560 for a total of next with 238 and Ft. Wayne in 11662. fourth spot with 220 units under- | Showing the higher land costs way, 3 jas building sites grow more scarce. Reporting on statewide home { [within the city, the average home building activity, F. Shirley Wilbuilt in Indianapolis this year cost/cox, state FHA director, sald $11,100, as compared t6 only $8300 housing was considerably ahead a year ago. |of a year ago. County Home Cost Less | During the first half, 2661 apBut less expensive homes were plications were received for conbeing built in the country, reportsistruction of 3525 units, he sald. showed. The average suburban |For the same period in '51 there home built this year cost only were 2496 applications and 2646 $9100 as compared to $9700 a year units started. ago. Older Houses Selling Too Total value of all residential Interest in the purchase of oldconstruction in the metropolitan'er homes was up also, FHA figarea for the first half year was | ures showed. $17,904,540. A year ago it totaled] Loan applications climbed from $15,719,299. {1846 in the first of 1951 to 2318 National building figures, com- this year. A year ago this time piled by the U. 8. Labor Depart- FHA loans were used to buy 1908 ment, complete through April/older homes, as compared to 2361 {show the Hoosier state 16th in|this year. [home building. A year ago last! Included in the new housing {April it ranked 18th. {starts this year are 970 deferse Gary Builds Most {housing units in Indiana—about As of April, 1952, Gary had 20 per cent of the number ap{nudged Indianapolis out of the proved for the state. {top spot in Hoosier home building] Here in Indianapolis, there are {with 754 units and was ranked 390 of these now underway with
{129th among the nation’s cities in a value of $2,892,000.
The Housing Planks Will Be Similar ;
| By ROBERT F. LOFTUS would just about kill home build- { i |
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- Upited Press Staff Correspondent ing throughout the country. SHICAGO, July 19—The Dem-| ‘mye resolution was opposed bit8 have decided against fight-/4,.1y hy some of the top leaders ing among themselves over the .¢ ADA, on the grounds it was so g section of their conven- getreme it-would hurt their entire {tion platform but will shoot, ip-|ciuil rights fight. {stead, at the splinter-thin hous-| Spokesmen for the organizaing plan adopted by the Repub- jon, however, said ADA now had ‘|Heans. a . |decided against raising the issue The GOP platform writers at the LL plo skipped over the problem of hous-| mpat brought a big sigh of reling legislation in just 31 words: \ tet from the Democratic plat“We will oppose fedefal rentirorm drafters, who are having control except in those areas|plenty of trouble as it is trying to {where the expansion of defense write a civil rights plank that {production has been accompanied wiy| satisfy the Northern liberals
ome is beiba completed: by! dasiansr-bui ally Stonehill at [DY critical housing shortages.) without driving the Southerners home is being 9 pl by 9 builder T iy $ 2 {With local co-operation we shall gut of the nz i
HILLTOP HQUSE=~This modern | 5677 N. Meridian SF.
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‘Mike Robinson
: © laid slum. clearance.” : | Contemporary design has at last put its foot in Shel “Doesn't the. GOP “Care?
+ |Indianapolis housing door. That brought a loud blast from | |Sen. Robert 8. Kerr of Oklahoma, |
Vacations Cut Joins Good Homes Ideas sown here by the last two Home Shows have i. first Democratic presidential . Ie ‘taken root and today are poking up glistening new tendrils. candidate to hit Chicago for his N ‘As Salesman | Typical of the contemporary (party's convention. 0 | e d es
Mike Robinson, former builder, |0Mes being built here ate those/s impregnated material which is| Sen Kerr told a news ne GOP
] 'lunder construction now by 0. C.| {ence on his arrival that the GOP| The vacation season showed its has joined the Good Homes, Inc., winters at 8150 N. Pennsylvania’ "red over and completely water
" : {platform was full of holes and affect th kl 1 local Gunnison Homes distribu-| P y effect on the weekly sales report Eat ER Riley Me. St: and Tully Stonehill at 5677 N. Proofed. lit just didn't commit the Republi-\of the Associated North Side
Graw, genersl | Meridian St. | “We've had a great many calls cans to do anything about hous- Realtors this week as the group manager, an- © The former is being built by from people who have seen the ing. iturned in only a dozen sales nounced this Mr, Winters for Fred J. Grumme, home while driving past on| Don’t the Republicans thinkiy ith a total of $123,800. week. an executive of the Mayflower- Meridian St.” said Mr. Stonehill. Ne, American people need hous-| mpg gies: Mr. Robinson Hogan van lines. It was designed! “It has attracted the attention of ing?" The Okisheman demanded. Gregory & Appel, Inc.—1305 N. has been a resi- { by Howard White, architect. 'many local builders, also. They've | Even some. Republicans pro-ln, mgm, gt
i | " fessed surprise at the failure of + a L Se] oman SScated on a eautiful woaded|stopped tu look 1t aver. their platform writers to go into, Norman L. Hammer—3713 Bal
(hillside, the home looks like an i lic housing— | timore Ave. realty firms here, lintregal part of .the terrain. ee cstion — Public BO Gerdenich Co.—two lots at 34th
specializing in it is a multi-level home that, WE Employee Taft, who was out in front of the St: and Hillside Ave. sales. of North laceents privacy, It faces to the Ww rk 35 Y GOP presidential nomination race| J & L Realty, Inc.—3103, 3105, Side . properties, rear of the large lot and its win-| VV OFKS ears at the time, is one of the creators 3109 and 3113 Priscilla Ave. and former- {dow walls overlook a scenic hill- lof the present housing law. W. L. Bridges & Son—1706 W. ly was a building Mr Robinson |5ide and small creek. Wulliam » Busch Hin That ontission is expeeted to] Wyoming St, 3427 N. LaSalle St, i obins Slectric’ s Jpspestator tor Plans call for the living room. Indianapolis plant OI rd draw plenty of fire from the Dem-| 2110 N. Sherman Dr., 1920 E. 64th I ‘ dining room, entrance hall, the] . ocrats when they open their nom- =%- Good Homes, ‘Inec., currently is : 35th anniversary .|. Hugh Teeters Co. — 6219 Oakdeveloping homes in the 2200 and children's play room and Ns, with the com-|Inating convention here tomor Wh Be 2300 .blocks: of 8. ‘St. Peter St.[kitchen to have paneled walls, pany Friday, TOW.
— Starting as al Sen John J Sparkman of Alabench at/bama, who has played a big role Sun Life Moves
1g in housing legislation on the Sen-| of Ie aye he Banking Committee, said he 10 Inland Building ® Works in Chi-/expects the Democratic platform| The Sun Life Assurance Co, of i cago, Mr. Ruesch Will contain a pledge to continue Canada has moved its Indiang was promoted to the present program of federal apolis office from 129 E. Market section super - ald, insurance and guarantees for St. to new 10th floor offices in vigor in 1938. He housing. the Inland Bldg, 156 E. Market was transferred. One major issue which might St. “ to Indianapolis have turned the Democratic Con-} After 26 years in the Hoosier
500 and come in two or three bedroom models with or without a basement.
. “concrete joists, and are covered with hardwood, cork or rubber)
tile. Sandstone Fireplace Wall One side wall of the living room| is finished in Briar Hill sandstone] and the fireplace, in matching] stone, forms a privacy wing with
Heavy Building Awards 12% planting box oufSide.
and construction costs are getting prohibitive, reports the article, | Today’s measure is not how big, but how livable, And that's pinpointing the situation pretty well. We're going through a housing revolution, It is just as inevitable as tomorrow—and just as modern, ;
Dropped the Ball?
There was a fumble in the GOP backfield two weeks ago when the
politicos huddled for their election!
platform. Their housing plank was as neat a dodge as any All-American halfback ever came up with on a broken field.
But their stand on taxes—to nator for contemporary design. It|your living.”
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cent, ' ——— — | Construction is -of salmones yd CG ERA a y ; : colored brick and redwood pani SRE el SC BL we als 5, lr ot py Home Builders Meet ieling. The house will be heated ¥ RA. ; > The next regular meeting of the hy a perimeter gas-fired heating
eludes a paneled den and game neer of Allison power twbinss, ™y | if Ey
SPRING MILL HEIGHTS—Catherine Winchester ‘new home at 6311 Sunset Lane Fi builder w of the Bruce Sav
Above Average Immediately below the living Mr. Ruesch (6 i ner 1048.
more healthful for the occupants.| * «Take the home we built this NEW YORK, July 19 — Con- room is a large recreation room. Mr, Ruesch, who lives at 7601 “People are past the stage of year at the Indianapolis Home tract awards for heavy construc-AlS0 on the lower level are two Ny. Meridian St. is married and running up and down stairs — Show... it was of contemporary tion. according to reports by En- bedrooms. Six bedrooms are in- hag three children. He is a mem-
quirements.
{stair - climbing is dangerous to design but not THE contempo- gineering News-Record and Con- cluded in the upper level floor per of the Telephone Pioneers of Action, representing the left wing
older people—and that's impor- rary design. It was but one man’s struction Daily, totalled $259.8 Plan. Window walls are used tant to consider in the light of interpretation of a house for a million for the week ending July throughout the home. our large old-age population. family of four people with certain 17, The figure was 12 per cent; The children's room has a “And the young folks can’t be specific needs. Another family and above the average week to date. unique feature—a bubble type bothered with the stairs problem, another architect would create a. Public construction, with/plastic dome similar to those used It makes too much sense to have Completely different house,” he awards of $181.6 million, took!in aircraft—as a skylight. all the children’s toys and para- Said. E most of what upswing there was. Construction is of masonry with phernalia on the lower floor,” he His advice to the prospective 1 showed a rise of 41 per cent a stone and fir exterior. Economiadded. {home owner? over the average week to date, cal materials are used throughout, *T'00 ‘many people have had the epee an dea here and an idea but was below the week of July builder O. C. Winters says. The idea. that contem make sure that your whole/10, when $205 million worth of heatin plant is radiant oil. ontemporary design is golytion has harmony of design c von-| 8 hd : bizarre design—freakish . .. that! ang terials. A good an contracts were reported. Con-| The Stonehill home, which the it is just a modern fad. That's not ig a avin You Then tracts awarded for private -workipyiider designed, is being erected | a pped for the week to $114.2/tor Dr, Melvin Lichtenberg.
true. | : pi _ select a reputable home builder. million, 16 per cent under the There is no common denomi- The better your home, the better average eth date. i gs DediroomS,
Public building contracts (ex-ma) Jiving room, activities room,
~lcluding housing) showed th~ SBCs 'biggest boost percentagewise and dining area, a knotty pine p
3 lin dollar totals, running up to {$74 million. awarded, up 87 per cent over the average week to date. Commercial buildings was also up on the percentage side, | {showing $18.7 million in contracts ¢; “jawarded, up 52 per cent over the average week.
America.
Tickets Are Ready For Realty Outing
Members of the Indianapolis Real Estate Board were urged this week to get their tickets for the 12th annual stag outing, of the board at Moose Lodge Country Home July 31. Albert Paetz is chairman and is assisted by Glen E. Burtt. Many prizes will again be awarded those attending.
fast nook and a patio in the rear ‘of the house.
Features Activity Room
| The floor plan spotlights the acvities room. This room includes a fireplace wall, cork floor, Bay-
Industrial constructién, how- lun maliogany -pancled walls, built-in TV and radio, window fever, was down for the week, ... overlooking the terra¢e, and with '$359 million contracts g ’ :
is about 15 by 22 feet in Size. The bedrooms, which overlook Meridian St., have high level windows for greater privacy and usable wall space. Privacy is guaranteed, however, hy the hillside lot on which the home ig built,
awarded, a drop of 36 per cent {under the average week; public ‘housing, at $12.7 million, was {down by 20 per cent under the average week; ‘private housing, at $54.4 million, was down 7 per
ry ig Indianapolis Home Builders Asso-!plant. pe ; age Co. sold this attractive NORTH SUBURBAN-—This
ine 5 Ye.) sation willbe hela M3 p. m.| The roof, which embodies both ur | ”~ ' uesday at Fox's Steak House. A modern trends—the pitched and ae. Bevo is rete burg, i ) Sone anche io [board of direcfors meeting will be flat designs—has the inaulation| Ne Dr., will be held open for in oom ih basement by « Fetters, Chief Engi- eld following the regular ses-|on top, instead of underneath the, Home includes paneled aactivities room, living room, fireplace, : £ De
: : raters. losulation is provided by iwo-car garage and dining room,
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country-style kitchen with x Home Open Today Has
vention into a brawl appeared to state, the company has expanded have been resolved peacefully. [their insurance in force to more After the Brawl Is Over than $45 million, Branch manThe Americans for Democratic ager is R. J. Simpson. W, Q. Reno heads the firm's group sales
of the Democratic Party, indi- office.
[cated they would make no fight . : Strike Hits B&O
{at the convention for a platform [commitment against racial segre-jy NEW YORK, July 19-—Net in-
{gation in houses built with federal come of the Baltimore and Ohio |aid. Railroad for the month of June At its own convention in Wash- was slightly more than $1 million, ington last spring, the ADA/it was announced here today by adopted a resolution calling for President Roy B. White, following a ban on the use of federal fundsithe regular monthly meeting of for any segregated housing, That{the Board of Directors. Railway would affect not only public hous-|operating revenues showed a deing, but FHA and VA homes crease of about $7 million for which are insured by the govern- June thig year, as compared with
ment. June "of last year, this decrease Building industry spokesmen being due almost altogether to the said any such sweeping ban steel strike.
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attractive stone three-bedroom ranch home -at 586 W, 77th St. spection today from 2:30 to 5:30 p. m. by American Estates, Ine.
GE si : , 1a ; price $31 00, E sink 3 dishwasher, 11/3 baths,
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