Show I I I I I ALL CONCRETE HOUSE BUILT AT MONTCLAIR INDIVIDUALS I In all al sections of the INDIVIDUALS I 1 I country are ore building concrete house hou o but there Is says sa Cement Age of Now New NewYork York an nn important development In the tho growing interest manifested in concrete construction by large and enterprising corporations engaged en ged in land improve improvement ment meat and building operations on an cx ex scale They Thc in con concrete cn concrete crete creto a n a good Investment even where first frt cost co t may bo be In excess exec of ot other methods of ot construction As showing the extent to which confidence in con concrete crete creto has hn developed in recent years year an house has ha been ben built buit at Montclair N J by a n a Now New York con construction construction company compan An Interesting fact tact in itt connection with this house Is that It Itis ItIs itis is neither for sale nor for tor rent rent The Tho purpose of the company is to afford op opportunity opportunity to the public to see exactly what an house means Tho The house thus becomes an object lesson of or great eat value and Interest Inter t It I Is not meant that every man who builds a dwelling shall reproduce this particular house in all al Us its IR dimensions but rather that he may ma see sec and thid clearly understand the tho great geat durability and superiority of ot concrete as ns exemplified In tho the structural al at processes Involved He is first given to understand that this house Is built entirely of concrete and steel Dur ing In Its Is construction every evey movement I of the tho workmen was noted with ex ox extremo interest by visitors They were first Impressed with the fact that the tho th foundations were sufficiently strong to carry a structure 10 times the size and that every overy feature was of at the tho same indestructible character The house weighs 60 tons and every over part Is 15 scientifically thought Tout ut by men high In their profession It I was a the to nr rt n a hous tn tim lm could not injure or destroy and that will wI require neither paint nor repairs amid from tram which all al danger danser from lire fire has been ben eliminated In its is design and construction all al thought of other materials was wn put aside In order that house might al also also also so look like Ike concrete The Tho company compan did not claim chains that a house of this charac char ter could be built at far less cost than a cheap frame house and that inex inca InexperIenced workmen could erect It but hut they sought to show thus the tho th highest ultimate economy econom demanded tho tIme most roost careful and scientific methods through out This led to the evolution of a t house with secure concrete foundation con concrete crete and steel walls with air wals wih space concrete floors tors partitions stairs bal bai and amI a roof loof of concrete tiles practically a monolithic mass ma |