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Show The accompanying design sh.iws a very attractive, well-built house, planned on thoroughly modern lines and construct I In such a way as to be as nearly fire resisting as any house could well be. Concrete blocks are used for the foundation and first story, while the seeond story is of cement plaster on metal latlj. The roof Is of dark green slate. It can h - -H 6ldRm. po'z:8'U u'O'xio'tr y J"! .1 i j Tig ; Bed Rm. EE ; 1 1 OXlfe'6- EE Mr. William A. Hartford will answer fjue.HtlonH and give advice FltlOK Ol'' COHT on all HuhJcctH pertaining to the ouhjei I or linlldliiK for tin: readers of tliiH napcr. On account of hlM wide experience expe-rience an Kdltor, Author and Manufacturer, Manufac-turer, lie 1m, without douht, the highest authority on all these suhjerts.' Addre?s all Inquiries tc William A. Hartford, No. I'M Fifth Ave. Chicago, III., and . only enclo.so two-ceut stamp for reply. To any one alive to the developments develop-ments in the building world Ihcre is nothing more striking than the steady growth of the quality Idea during the past ten or fifteen years. Where formerly for-merly home builders were satisfied with makeshift construction and with the cheap though gaudy effects in building there has come to be a general gen-eral demand for the best grades of maUrla and the most thorough workmanship work-manship united to form substantial, permanent, structures. Take the medium-sized dwelling house, for Instance, such as the average aver-age finally requires; a generation ago $'i,000 would .probably have been the fop figure considered proper for its iost. Today no one would think ot spending less than twice that amount if he would build with an eye to permanent per-manent use or future sale. The Increased cost of labor and materials ma-terials has had something to do with this, It is true, but not so much as is sometimes thought. No; it is the added add-ed comforts and the higher standard of quality all the way through that j have brought this about. Modern I plumbing and fixtures, modern heat- lug systems, modern lighting, cement ed basements, permanent fireproof voofing, hardwood doors; all these, which are the luxuries of yesterday but the necessities of today, mark the advancing standards of building; and the general building public now realize real-ize what the carpenters and building contractors have known all along Secor.d Floor Plan be easily seen that a house of these materials would be in no danger from adjacent buildings if they should be on fire. It is interesting to note in this connection that statistics show three-fourths of our enormous fire loss in this country to be due to fire spreading from one building to another. anoth-er. In the numerous tests made in the U. S. government testing laboratories labora-tories concrete has been proved to be iK-ft ill i ) ASLx Kf , that quality building is the only kind which pays. As a natural companion to this idea of quality building there has developed devel-oped also an increasing demand for permanency and enduring qualities in building work. The demand for fireproof fire-proof construction has become more and more insistent every year until now houses which may be considered fireproof, at least as far as the outside out-side fire hazard is concerned, are very common. The building of a home almost al-most always requires saving and sacrifice sac-rifice on the part of all in the family, and it is quite natural that they should absolutely fire resisting, and not only in a laboratory but also in actual work concrete has demonstrated its fire-proofing fire-proofing qualities in the most convincing con-vincing manner. This house is 24 feet 8 inches in width and 32 feet 8 inches in length. It contains three large rooms, alcove and pantry on the first floor and two bedrooms and a bath upstairs. ' The floor plan shows the arrangement of these rooms to be both comfortable and convenient. The estimated cost of this house, using good quality oak flooring downstairs and edge grain yellow pine flooring upstairs and hardwood trim throughout, is $3,000. DiMirsc Rm. Kitchen I X 1 111 -.. I Living Room tEEJ I r 1 Porch First Floor Flan ' ant to build as securely as possible so that all their labor and savings may not be wiped out iu flame. The development of Portland cement ce-ment during recent 'years has done more to help along this fireproofing campaign than any other single factor. At the prevailing prices of the material mate-rial entering into concrete construction, construc-tion, viz., Portland cement, sand and gravel, substantial fireproof houses are being put up at a cost only about ten I or fifteen per cent, greater than for I ordinary frame buildings of this same i design a 'id size. |