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    Best Homes of the 1920s
    Best Homes of the 1920s
    Best Homes of the 1920s
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    Best Homes of the 1920s

    By Standard Homes Company

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    It has required years of painstaking effort...to bring before prospective home builders the hundreds of practical, money saving ideas offered by this system... A little study of each plan shown will convince any thoughtful person that these are, in reality, the most carefully planned homes in America. — Better Homes at Lower Cost
    Faithfully reprinted from the Standard Homes Company's popular Better Homes at Lower Cost, this collection of early twentieth-century house plans was created with a simple system of standardization that allowed 1920s-era home builders to reduce construction costs while maintaining the integrity of an attractive and soundly built abode. Scores of excellent photographs, drawings, and floor plans depict seventy-seven meticulously detailed homes of wood, brick, stucco, and stone. From the substantial beauty of the eight-room "Homestead" and the classic colonial "Cambridge" to the spacious Spanish-style "Ponce de Leon," this is a rare and delightful time capsule for builders, home preservationists, architects, and readers interested in nostalgia and vintage home illustrations.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherDover Publications
    Release dateSep 5, 2012
    ISBN9780486147161
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      Best Homes of the 1920s - Standard Homes Company

      Bibliographical Note

      This Dover edition, first published in 2008, is an unabridged republication of the work originally published in 1928 as Better Homes at Lower Cost by Standard Homes Company, Washington, D. C. The only significant alteration consists in omitting the index for space considerations.

      Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data

      Best homes of the 1920s.

      p. cm.

      Originally published: Washington, D. C. : Standard Homes Co., 1928.

      9780486147161

      1. Architecture, Domestic—United States—Designs and plans. 2. Architecture—United States—20th century—Designs and plans. I. Standard Homes Company. II. Title: Best homes of the 1920s.

      NA7208.S73 2007

      728’.370222—dc22

      2007027555

      Manufactured in the United States of America

      Dover Publications, Inc., 31 East 2nd Street, Mineola, N.Y. 11501

      Table of Contents

      Title Page

      Copyright Page

      The STAFFORD

      (Size 34×34′)

      Humanity’s earnest call is for kindness and good cheer. Those best fitted to do their bit toward human betterment are those who practice in their homes the principles which they endeavor to demonstrate abroad. Living up to one’s moral standards is not a great risk if the surroundings are satisfying and the arrangement of the home is as ideal as The Stafford.

      The STANFORD

      (Size 24×28′)

      Man’s strength can easily be gauged by his faith in the strength of woman. Woman’s intuition has always equalled, and in many instances surpassed, man’s reason. Strong men know this vital principle of life and strive daily to keep harmonious the home in which dwells the heart and source of their strength. This is an easy task in beautiful new homes like The Stanford.

      The KENNILWORTH

      (Size 26×30′)

      Every movement for human betterment first finds expression in the home. There is something in the inner beings of optimistic men and

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