Small Brick Houses of the Twenties
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Thirty-five sets of floor plans, elevations, and specifications in this excellent reproduction of that now-rare volume depict a wide variety of brick houses, bungalows, cottages, garages, and multi-dwelling buildings--from the four-bedroom Pocatello to the handsome Saratoga, featuring a wraparound porch and two bathrooms.
This practical guide will appeal to anyone wanting to buy or renovate an existing home of the period. It will also serve as a how-to manual for all desiring to build their own homes today with authentic materials and techniques. For those who love fine, old buildings, Small Brick Houses of the Twenties offers a charming view of American homes from that era.
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Small Brick Houses of the Twenties - Ralph P. Stoddard
America
It is one of the greatest things in the world to be proud to walk up to your own front door.
Howard Shaw, Architect
MATERIAL IS THE FIRST ESSENTIAL of the HOUSE
THE most important financial transaction in the lifetime of the average man is the building or the buying of a home. Nothing else costs so much or is used so long. No act of the average man’s life, except only the selection of a wife, requires the exercise of such good judgment and common sense as the providing of a house in which to shelter and protect all that is dearest in the world to him.
Yet few know little more about the essentials of house building than about building battleships. Buyers are educated in the non-essentials of construction. More houses have been sold upon the appearance of the electric fixtures than upon the merits of the materials of which the houses were built. Every speculative builder, or so-called real estate builder, is familiar with this weakness of Mr. and Mrs. Homeseeker. Playing upon it is a trick of too many builders.
Give ’em something fancy in fixtures and decorations and they will ask no questions about the foundations and walls.
That is a stock phrase with thousands of speculative builders the country over. The same man who would buy a home solely because he or his wife liked the fixtures, the decorations, or some minor feature of arrangement, would not buy a suit of clothes for the buttons alone. Yet that would be a parallel case.
This is not an effort to deprecate the value of good equipment. Artistic and convenient furnishings, both stationary and movable, are important to the success of the home; but, most unfortunately for the owner—the man who pays the bills—the real essentials are commonly lost sight of and the buyer’s attention is generally drawn, by clever salesmanship, to the glittering non-essentials of the house. A little money goes a long way in these minor materials and too often they have been used to blind the buyer to costly omissions of real importance in the structure itself.
The home buyer should be interested in getting the best possible value for his money. He tries to obtain this when he buys clothes for himself or his family, or furniture for his home. He isn’t always interested in the cheapest shoes, or hat, or overcoat, for he has learned that the best always is cheapest. The best clothes wear longest. keep their shape and color longest, and give the most in service.
But when the same man invests thousands of dollars in a home to live in during the balance of his life he disregards all the rules that apply to his lesser purchases and picks out his house as he would a piece of French pastry from the tray the waiter holds before him. He takes the one that is gotten up to attract his attention.
Let the prospective home builder or buyer be warned that the first consideration should always be the material of which the house is constructed. What is it built of?
should be his most insistent question. Second in importance is the architecture of the house, and this means the artistic exterior appearance as well as the planning of the interior—the arrangement of rooms. After these two essentials come the matters of heating, decorating and fixtures; but it is possible to change these two latter things to suit his taste at any time, while structural material and design are built into the house and are there to stay, either as a source of increasing comfort, satisfaction and economy, or, if unfortunately chosen, to plague the owner as long as he holds the property and to multiply the upkeep cost as the years go by.
It’s one of the greatest things in the world to be proud to walk up to your own front door.
IT IS MORE ECONOMICAL to OWN THAN to RENT
WHETHER it is more economical to rent or to own a home is a much discussed question. It would be no easier to answer this question on its face than to say which lasts longer, a candle or a gallon of kerosene. Many qualities must be known before an answer can be given. Whether it is cheaper to rent than to own a home all depends upon the kind of house.
It can be stated, almost without exception, that it would cost the occupant less to own any given house than to rent it, because the owner invariably rents for profit. The amount collected for rent must cover not only all the maintenance charges such as taxes, insurance, repairs and normal interest on the investment, but must be sufficient to leave something over for the owner. If the renter turns owner then, and is satisfied with exactly the same accommodations, he will undoubtedly save money.
Usually the man who becomes his own landlord comes to enjoy many advantages that he did not have as