Oakland Tribune from Oakland, California • Page 29

rT EXPOSITION MODEL HOMES TOUR ENTRIES FOR EASTBAY A Mi A 11.,: jSSfeM I iJfe I MrW knoll DEVELOPMENT? AL ESTATE DISPLAY AND CLASSIFIED OAKLAND, DECEMBER 4. 1938 11 i 1 1 i Twelve Model Homes Will Be Shown in World Fair Year Presented in thejr natural resi Mason-McDuffie Company, to be built by M. Walker; in North Cragmont, Berkeley, either a Cali fornia or English Colonial home, designed by P. H. Hamm'erberg, entered by the Berkeley Real Estate Board and.

Chamber of Commerce, and built by J. M. Walker. OTHER ENTRIES In Montclair Highlands, a California modern home designed bj dential set 12 beautifully landscaped, furnished and architect-designed homes will open simultaneously for World's Fair visitors next year, showing throughout Contra Costa and Alameda Counties, the Eastbay's distinctive model homes in choice residential locations. The 12 homes, the Eastbay unit of Exposition Model Homes Tour, will make up a furnished exhibition home tour extending from Richmond and Lafayette in Contra Costa County, to San Leandro in Alameda County.

Each is designed by a noted architect, is approved by an architectural board, and is the product of study and experience on what constitutes the most desirable home for a given district. SCENIC TOURS Various tours by automobile and public conveyance, which will include, besides the model homes, the most scenic and interesting points in the two counties, are being mapped out by the Exposition Tours Committee of Alameda -and Contra Costa Counties. Actual locations of the homes and styles planned include, at Lafayette, in Happy Valley Estates, a California Colonial home designed by Earl MacDonald and entered by the Montclair Realty Company, with Arthur Cobbledick, landscape engineer; at Moraga Woodlands, a mod-era California-Colonial home designed by John B. Anthony, entered by Frew T. Wood in Mira Vista, Richmond, a Colonial home designed by Keith O.

Narbett, entered by the M. A. Hays Realty Company; in Park Hills, Berkeley, English Colonial home designed by Frederick L. Confer, entered by the John entered by Emge and Stockman; in the Le Mon arK section of Piedmont Pines, a French-Normandy home, built by R. F.

D. LeMon, and entered by the Capital Company; at Avenue Terrace, East Oakland, a Colonial home, designed by F. H. Slocombe and entered and built by Allen and Allen; at Oak Knoll, Oakland, a Swedish modern home, designed by Charles F. Maury, and entered by the David D.

Bohan-non organization; in New Broad moor, San Leandro, a home designed by Irwin M. Johnson and entered by Derry Brothers; and in Fernside Marina, Alameda, a modern nautical berg, built by George Windsor, and entered by E. S. Agnew. It is anticipated that some million visitors will go through these homes during the period from May to September' 15, 1939, when they will be on display.

Most of the homes will be furnished by local retail furniture stores, and in many cases special furniture is being designed, so that the May opening of the "tour homes will have the effect of a Spring Furniture Style Show. Special innovations in the way of modem building materials, kitchen design, heating, lighting, and elaborate landscaping, are being planned, so that each home will represent the ultimate in desirability when com pleted and Ten Months It each of the new housing units which the Federal Housing Administration has accepted lor mortgage insurance in Oakland during the past 10 months were set down side by side on an average-size city lot, there would be an unbroken row of new dwellings stretching a distance of over three miles, it Is estimated by D. C. McGuinness, director er FHA for the Northern California5 district. Permits Issued for New 3r Plans for the participation of Alameda and Contra Costa counties in the Exposition Model Homes Tour are being rapidly formulated.

The locations of the 11 Eastbay homes are indicated on the map. and the illustrations include the nine for whic the designs have been completed. The numbers on the homes correspond to the numbered locations on the map. The index follows: (10) a New Broadmoor home to be builtvby Derry Brothers, Irwin M. Johnson, architect; (7) Chateau Longue Vue in the LeMon Park section of Piedmont race, Francis Slocombe, architect; (2) a home for North Cragmont entered by the Berkeley Real Estate Board and the Berkeley Chamber of Commerce, J.

M. Walker, builder, and P. H. Hammarberg, architect; (4) Happy Valley residence displayed by the Montclair Realty Company, Earl R. MacDonald, architect.

Plans for home (3) in the Park Hills tract of the Mason-McDuffie Company and of (9) in Oak Knoll to be built by the David D.Johannon Organization, are not yet available. Pines, entered by the Capital Company, Mitchell and Austin, tract representatives; (11) a Fenjslde Marina home, George Windsor, builder, P. H. Hammarberg, architect and the, Agnew Realty-Company as sponsor; (1) a Mira Vista home for the M. A.

Hays Realty Company with Keim O. Narbett, architect; (6) Montclair Highlands home for Emge and Stockman, John Hudspeth, architect; (5) the Moraga Estates home of the Fred T. Wood Company, John C. An? thony, architect; (8) the Allen and AJIen home in Avenue Ter PLAN HOUSING EXPOSITION EXHIBIT Santa Cruz Plans Building Drive 0 been reorganized. So successful did the organization find its initial attempt that the fund to.be spent in fostering Winter home construction will be larger this year.

"Santa Cruz is closer to you" is the keynote of the advertising campaign to be waged all over Northern California this Winter, emphasizing the building of new and better highways into the district For residents of Stockton and the San Joaquin Valley the completion early next Summer of the new Los Gatos route will shorten both time and distance to the Coast, it is pointed out. Members of the "Developers" calculate that fully 200 homes were erected in the last year in the Santa Cruz would not have been built had it not been for their program. New residents were attracted to the region by advertising, and prospective residents were hastened jfl their home building by the publicity given the advantage of Winter construction. The Santa Crux region, it is declared, has already begun a'perind of rapid growth, with accompanying increase in values. The association comments: "The success of last Winter's experiment brought a particularly happy result The Santa Cruz district was a white spot on the industrial map? Contractors and workmen were kept occupied throughout the rainy months, I I nifiiv The experiment of the Santa Cruz district last Winter, in stimulating home, construction by advertising the advantages of "building now" iri that area, is) be renewed, it is announced.

The "Santa Crui District Developers." an impromptu and informal association of material dealers, property owners and financial interests, which last, year financed a cam paign of newspaper advertising, has BEILEVIEW GARDENS East 14th San Leandra, Twit murk Frsnt 0kln4 I.lna Tmrmnortatlon to nil point. TWO NEW 0 now orrv roa ivsrwrrioy 168 Bcllcview I 280 BcIIevtew Drive, Bfu, home Price $5,750 Lon and tty 1rfr Drive, Charm'ing 5-room home Price $5,350 Payment) mty rent will build homf. frnm.M.l.'.n STANLEY M. DAVIS Owbm na' Builder 4 Bnrrft Avenia' la Leandr. RW-SIOt NEW ii j- wj, 7 HI I -mmmmmmmm i mi i riiiriiininiiniiiinin -nri iiimnii i i a iiwiiiij rur i-miiiii rrn nirrr mi Plumbing Display To Feature Show Plans are being perfected for a display of plumbing fixtures at the second annual Oakland National Housing Exposition that will depict the progress of the plumbing industry over a period of many gen-eratiflns, according to W.

H. Graham, secretary of the Oakland Master Plumbers Association. The exposition will be held January 20 to 28 inclusive in the exposition building at 12th and Fallon Streets, under the joint sponsorship of the Oakland Real Estate Board find the Associated General Contractors and Build, era of the Eastbay. "The plumbing, industry has a vital part in any program of presenting to thepublic a picture of the advances being made in home construction and modernization," Graham gtates. "fh an exposition of this character, we can show the people the improvements that have been mAde in design, color and utility.

All branches of Ihe industry can participate and display" the con-tributidiis they have made to the general good. "The interest manufacturers and distributors are takine ln-this I ond annual Oakland National. ing Exposition, Is most gratifying I nfl highly encouraging to the mas-i ter plumber who is, in the final I analysis, the one who sells the home i builder on the need for the im-I proved appliances. With their as-i sistance, we can make the plumbing exhibita one of the' most interesting and JnstructiVe, features of the whole expoeitmn." Window Order Sets New World Mark Reported 'to be the Inrppef in1 order for 'windows in the history of residential construction, tne con- Homes Here in According to figures secured from the Federal' Reserve Bank, 909 building permits were issued for the construction of new residential property in Oakland, including all types up to four-iamiiy dwellings, during the first 10 months of 1938, According to the Northern Cali fornia district office of the Federal Housing Administration, this governmental agency has accepted for insurance 697 mortgage applications during the same period, representing a percentage of 76.67 in FHA insured mortgage applications, in comparison with the total building permits, issued in this city. Tis further represents a 149 per cent increase in new buildings for home occupancy over the 230 mort- eaee anDlications accepted lor in surance by the Federal Housing Administration in Oakland during the first months of last year.

In dollar value, the 10 months' figures of FHA mortgages accepted for insurance in 1928 total $3,511,100, against $1,327,700 during the same period in 1937, an increase of 183,400. ANOTHER SPECIAL Here is another featured Gcorgp. Windsor home for thil ww (last week's special sold on Sunday): 5 big rooms and a fenced-in back yard; landscaped front garden; hardwood floors; gas furnace with air conditioning; copprr hot water pipes throughout; ran-va covered walls in kitchen and balliroomr man? other rrf i ne rnents andfomforta; FHA awptrd $6375 Olhr 5 and 6-room hom have been completed during the wrrk and are ape for inspection today, Every i a model in prnfcwaihnsl planning for comfort nd' utility, fine craltomanship and lh asc ormodera ideas and ap- I plianiT Prirra range from $j800 to 17330; ill FHA accepted. TradrS Smaller homes are accepted at fair valuation in trade on tlieaa beautiful George Vindor bomes. Drive eat Fernstde Boulevard and Versailles A venae TODAY (adjoining the estaarf at Froit-vale A venae Bridcel this week's special an inspect ether homes In all states of eon-atrnrtion.

AGNEW REALTY CO. Sos Agf Fernside" Boulcid (Near Vetlatlles) AL ameda 1211 GEORGE W1XDSOZI DEVELOP3IE.T mm 7 Representatives. of plumbing supply manufacturers me conferring with the Master Plumbers' Association and officials of the Second Annual Oakland Housing Exposition regarding a pageant depicting the progress of plumbing as a display feature of the exposition January 20 to 28. Present at Ae conference were, stemding, left to right: Frank E. Johns, Pacific Coast representative of Briggs Beau tyw are: B.

J. Wallin' of the exposition staff; Eruse, national president, Master Plumbers' Association; J. Sheldon, local manager of Crane Company; Graver McDonald, general manager of the Housing Exposition: seated, left to right C. R. Dean, Standard Sanitary Company; W.

H. Graham, secretary Oakland Master Plumbers' Association: D. Murphy, Pacific Coast salesmanager, American Radio-, tor Co, and W. S. Kewer, president Oakland Master Plumbers' Association.

f1.1ATERIALS SANTA CRUZ Is Closer to OAKLAND Than It Was Last Year Next Year It Will Closer Still. HEW HIGHWAYS Are Shortening Distances, Bringing InjcHne Santtr CruzTDistrict Men and Women Who Want to' Live Life to the Fullest. REAL HOMES Are Being Built at the Coast Where You Like to Spend Your Vacation. There Is a Location To Meet. Yottf Desires and Pocket-book in the Santa Cruz District.

Write the WlCavfwlU Santa Crur, An Orrantsstlon Interests, Property Owitu and Material Oealers I i tne.1 to Promote tViister, 1' l. i buildings, ranging from seven to 13 ytories in height, with 200 elevators. It will cover 125 or more acres. There will be five garases, each having a capacity of 800 cars. AT ROCK-COTTON PRICES tract for 65.800 Fenestra teel win dows and casings, to be in stalled in Uie $50,000,000 community housing prxject of the Metropolitan Life Insurance Compny, located in the Bronx.

New York City, has been awarded to Detroit Steel Products Company, according to J. M. Drew, a In Beautiful HYDE MANOR Oakland branch manager for the company. First shipment will be made within the next 30 daya. The magnitude of this order, wiiich ia said to exceed by five timcgany previous commitment for residential windows, is indicated by the.

requirement of approximately 100,000 maivhours of labor for its completion, involving 5,000,000 operations, with 10,000 gallons of priming paint applied on the steel surfaces at. the Fenestra factory. The Metropolitan housing project will embrace a minimumVof lib Mil A Ii LCD TT DOORS 1 panel. No. 1 CAfnrNET DOORS 1 panel A snap.

VENEER $2X5 -r pi I ply o. r. per LATTICE. Redwood. Hundred lineal RECESS TLBS $2la3 5-5', BASINS ffl Pedestal, slightly dam.

ttiit WASH, TEA. Double, A Grade. 17, SINKS, A Grade. dhle. dninhnard TOILETS, low tank.

$13.75 A Grade, complete. TOILET SEATS $1.75 90-LB. AND BETTER ROOFING PAPER Mineral Surface; red, green, biark, nails and tar SJI PS included roll i)li3 SHINGLES Hesa- tonal pat Bundle. Paf IU 1-PLY PAPER Nails CJU and tar Included. GALVANIZED PIPE 'vlnrh GALVANIZED ELLS 'V-fnrll PATENT CHIMNEYS Omplrte HOI SE PAINT Gallon rt 5Je S7.53 NEW HOME Built on Your Own Lot NO CASH DOWN FHA TERMS Lot Furnished If Desired PACE COMPANY 1119 Broadway HI gate 7622 MM Two ft) three times aize of a city-tot the $500 to $1200 1 i( na- 7 Tf if! II" i 'a sFcoxn.nwn Bnc.is i WATER HEATERS His Coll.

1.50 XetomaHc. $4 50 Bmh Tuba with complete Stofare flttines Ranra Boilera, Toileta, hltfh Chimney Pipe, Terra Low tank CetU length SO Buy Numbing material S. COMPAIIY 2200 EAST 12TII ST. FRnitvale 15G1 Spanish ond Monterey Colonial Homes A practical aa they ar beautiful. $6950 Planned fpr aunllaht with spacloua roomi, corner windows, Vtnetian blinds, atall.

ahowera, 2-cr arait, rornr til links, social halls, levtl Jandai-aptd lota. Fruitvole Avenue or Hyde Street Open Dally 1 teluiitt A ttnli HIGHLAND REALTY CO. 3268 Lakeshora Avenue HI gate 1567 Over 50 Hew homes built this year, all occupied by owners. The reason: Low taxes, fine schools, good roads, city water, electricity, telephones, and now gas to most locations, plus Orinda's marvelous climate MITCHELL AUSTIN OrihrVe. hpttpr wav nf ORINDA Orlnda 6611 Phone living ULlU.