THE 1937 BOOK OF SMALL HOUSES
Architectural Forum [Editors]
Architectural Forum [Editors]: THE 1937 BOOK OF SMALL HOUSES. New York: Simon and Schuster, 1936. Fifth printing. Quarto. Decorated paper covered boards. 253 pp. 115 houses profiled with plans and black and white photographs. Front board lightly scuffed with mild edgewear. Spine crown chipped away. Interior unmarked and clean. Out-of-print. A nearly very good copy.
9.25 x 12.25 hardcover book with 253 pages with more than 500 illustrations showcasing 115 carefully selected small houses. Profusely illustrated in black and white with photographs, floorplans and construction details for pre-World War II houses ranging in price from $982 to $20,000. A desirable title that documents the transition from the 1930s streamline and moderne styles to what-would-become the International Style.
From the book: "The Book of Small Houses is designed as a complete manual for the thousands who want to build their own homes with a complete understanding of every step and every expense involved. It contains plans, costs, specifications and all construction details for 115 small houses selected by the Editors of Architectural Forum . . . .
- How to Use this Book
- Introduction
- GETTING DOWN TO BUILDING
- The Urge to Build
- Selecting an Architect
- The Locality and the Site
- Designing and Planning
- The Importance of the Architect
- Building Your Home
- A Word About Maintenance
- Financing Your Home
- THE COST OF BUYING HOMES, Priced from $5,000 to $20,000, by the FHA Plan (Chart)
- 85 Houses in Tabular Survey
- A BRIEF CHECK LIST OF QUESTIONS
- About the Neighborhood
- About the Lot
- About the House
- 40 IMPORTANT POINTS IN HOUSE CONSTRUCTION
- The Architect and the $5,000 House
- 46 Houses Costing Not More Than $5,000
- 69 Houses Costing from $5,000 to $20,000
- A List of Books about Homebuilding
Architects include William B. Wiener, Richard J. Neutra, A. Lawrence Kocher and Albert Frey, Harwell Hamilton Harris, Carl Anderson, William Wilson Wurster, Royal Barry Wills, H. F. Kuehne, Milton L. Grigg [x 3], Jan Ruhtenberg, William O. Armitage, Douglass V. Freret, George Wellington Stoddard [x 3], James Gamble Rogers [x 2], Marion Manley, Keith Sellers Heine, Ira P. Jones, Jonathan Ring, Robert S. Hutchins, Smith & Weller, Michael Goodman, J. Cosby Byrd & W. H. Badgett, Edgar W. Archer, Luther Lashmit, Frank Harper Bissell [x 2], Arthur Kelly & Joe Estep, WArne, Tucker & Silling, Hmilton and Gwenydd Beatty, Thomas W. Cooper, Maximillian R. Johnke [x 2], Margaret F. Spencer, Bartlett Cocke [x 2], W. Norman Jeavons, Corwin Willson, Henry Carlton Newton and Robert Dennis Murray, C. Everett Burbank, Walter Bradnee Kirby [x 3], Anne Fuller, Christian Rosborg, Henry Irven Gaines [x 2], George Patton Simonds, Nevin, Morgan & Kolbrook, Reinhard M. Bischoff, G. Edwin Brumbaugh, Charles H. Umbrecht, Hays and Simpson, H. Roy Kelley [x 2], Dominique Berninger, Randolph Evans, Jerome Bailey Foster, Witmer and Watson, Lucius S. Beardsley, William Wilde, Brueggman and Swaim, Calvin Banwell, Miller and Warnecke, Elmer B. Milligan, Clement J. Ford, Robert R. Royce, Edwin R. Closs, Moore & Lloyd, Roscoe Cook Tindall, Albert Lee Hawes, McNeil Swasey, Gene H. Brockow, Richard W. Mecaskey [x 2], Robert Isphording, W. Montgomery Anderson, Harvey Stevenson and Eastman Studds [x 2], Derby, Barnes and Champney, H. Roy Kelley Edgar Bissantz, Harold G. Spielman, John C. B. Moore [x 2] , Maxwell A. Norcross, D. Allen Wright, Keith Sellers Heine, Harvey Stevenson & Eastman Studds, John Sherwood Kelley, Kenneth W. Dalzell, John J. Whelan, Rollin C. Chapin [x 2], Llewellyn Price, William M. Pareis [x 2], Winchton Risley [x 2], C. W. Fant & L. S. Whitten, Emery Kinkead, John Sherwood Kelly, Edward X. Tuttle, R. H. Scannell, Bennett, Parsons, & Frost, Ralph C. Flewelling, Newton W. Sheppard, Francis Keally, Gordon B. Kaufmann, Beverly T. Nelson, and Chester H. Walcott.