A Comparison between American and Italian Homes
Part 3 of a 1927 magazine article on The Perfect Home
THE LADIES’ HOME JOURNAL has played an extremely important part in this betterment for more than a generation and will continue to do so on an increasingly elaborate scale in the future. Of the influence already exerted by this [...]

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A Comparison between American and Italian Homes
Part 2 of a 1927 magazine article on The Perfect Home
T0 THE dwellers in the Florentine villa the little half a twin house in Philadelphia would be awful to contemplate, and the same would be true to the young couple who find unbounded satisfaction in the efficiency housekeeping made [...]

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A Comparison between American and Italian Homes
Part 1 of a 1927 magazine article on The Perfect Home
THERE are twenty-room villas on the lovely hillsides of Florence, Italy, that can be had for fewer dollars than the purchase price of half a twin house in the reclaimed swamp region of South Philadelphia. These villas have no [...]

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EIGHT MAXIMS FOR REAL ESTATE OPERATORS
HOW to make money handling real estate was recently comprest into eight maxims by W. Burke Harmon, a well-known New York realtor, and reported as follows by the New York World:
1. Never buy for cash. The successful operator invests just as little of his own funds as possible, glad to [...]

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House with Glass Walls Exhibited in Poland
AN UNUSUAL building that formed an interesting feature of an exposition staged recently at Poznan, Poland, suggests how dwellings of the future may appear if men eventually live in glass houses. Apart from a few posts and beams, the structure is almost entirely of glass. Built in an equal-sided [...]

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Hoover Helps the Home-Builder
TO FIND A WAY TO MAKE IT EASIER for the average man or woman to obtain a home”—that, in the phrase of the New York World, is the object of the White House Conference on home-building and home ownership recently called by President Hoover.
Pointing out that this is the twenty-fourth commission appointed [...]

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ICE CONCRETE—This is the name of a new, porous, astonishingly light building material invented in Finland. Like ordinary concrete, it is composed of cement and sand. Crusht ice or snow is used during the process of mixing. Says Waldemar Kaempffert in the New York Times:
Heat evaporates the water of the melting ice, and the result [...]

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LITTLE HOUSES IN BRICK AND STUCCO
REASONABLENESS and imagination, recognized by the Mediaeval builders as the underlying principles of all great architecture. should be as inseparably united in the small home of today us they were in the great cathedrals of old. For the little house is an expression of thought, though a very different kind [...]

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