Best Homes of the 1920s

Standard Homes Company

• Publisher: Dover Publications
• Year: 2012
• ISBN:
  9780486147161
• Topic: Architecture
• Subtopic: Architecture générale

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.

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 women which prompts them to lend a hand to the helpless and give a word of cheer to the cheerless. Those who make The Kennilworth their home will be prompted daily to radiate the sunshine its comforts will bring.

The HAMILTON

(Size 36×26′)

Nothing so stimulates and elevates a man as for his life companion to believe in him, and in no other way can a man show his appreciation of such confidence and trust as in the earnest endeavor to build her a home of her own. Any woman who has tact, forethought, and patience with her husband need not despair of owning eventually just such a home as The Hamilton.

It cannot be estimated what civilization owes to pure-minded women who love their homes.

The EMERSON

(Size 36×28′)

The life that would be complete, that would be sweet and sane as well as strong must be softened and enriched by the love of all things beautiful. In no other way has man proven his onward and upward march as in the creation of beautiful homes like The Emerson. Such homes are civilisation’s guide posts on the path of progress.

The PELHAM

(Size 20×32′)

All mothers should be free from those things which disturb and distress. They should at all times feel a sense of restfulness, serenity, peace and poise. Conditions for such a state of mind cannot be found in crowded districts, but rather in ideal private homes, where only those influences are permitted which tend to satisfy the maternal senses.

The WESTCLIFFE

(Size 28×28′)

It is never the size nor monetary value of a home that grips and holds the heart of a child as the years lead him into manhood. Instead it is the sympathy, companionship and love demonstrated by contented parents who have ...