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About Capital journal. (Salem, Or.) 1919-1980 | View Entire Issue (Nov. 2, 1929)
SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 2. 1929 PACE TWELVE BEAUTIFUL NEW JOHNSON HOME SOON FINISHED ARCHITECTURE FOLLOWS PURE GEORGIAN LINES HON OF CONCRETE WORK NEAR FINISHED STATE BUILDING New Johnson Home On Fairmount Hill A Modern Home 'PLANE HANGAR SET NEXT WEEK One of Salem newest and larg est homes, beautuul structure which Is essentially and primarily a home and not solely a show place. Is nearlng completion and within ten days Its owners, Mr. and Mrs. O. F. Johnson, plan to move in. The new home, pure Georgian architecture, style which has In creased in dignity and simplicity through the last century and a halt while lesser types have long ago fallen Into disuse, is situated on the brow of Fairmount hill hall way up Lincoln street. An unsur passed view of Salem, the river, and the hills beyond greets one from all windows. A nature wealth of fir and oak trees on the big plot of ground on which the house Is situated, Is being happily com bined with the landscape plan. The gravel drive has been laid around the front entrance and to the double garages at the extreme west end of the house and the landscap ing on the Lincoln street side of the house Is practically complete. Ter races will be built later from sever al brick terraces on the Lefelle street side to the garden which lies on the steep hill slope. As Is fitting for the Georgian house, the outside structure Is of led brick. Tall white pillars, two stories high, support the shelter over the front entrance. The house Is a full two stories with several full sized dormers protruding from the attic floor. The windows, full sized with the small panes, are equipped with white shutters. Entering the dignified front door one Is admitted to a beautiful large, oblong shaped hallway which runs the entire width of the house. The floors are of blocked oak and the walls finished In Georgian pan elling. At the other end of the kali Is a beautiful circular stairway which leads past a full length arch ed window. The window runs up two stories through the hallway. To the right, two steps down and through a double archway, Is one drawing room, a very large room with windows on three sides. The walls are done In antique ivory and specially designed light fixtures will be placed around the walls within a few days time. The fireplace In the living room is also pure Georgian. It is of black marble with the narrow mantle and hearth typical of Its period. Full length windows on both sides of the room, south and north, open like French doors. On the east side of the big room, glass doom open to a love ly sunroom. A feature of the sun room Is Its lovely floor of Colonial tile In a half dozen dull shades. The big windows on the north lead directly to a brick terrace overlook ing the hillside garden. At the left of the main entrance hail are openings to two rooms, first the dining room and a bit farther on toward the stairway, the li brary. The library Is a gorgeous room finished entirely In dark gum wood with recessed bookshelves, a big fireplace and tw long recessed window seats. It Is a room which spells quiet and meditation. The dining room Is quite the gay est room on the first floor. It Is strictly French with a French man tle and mirror, walls finished en tirely in Louis XIV green silk dam ask and a crystal drop light from the center of the room specially de signed for that room. One comer to filled out with a built-in china closet. The kitchen, off the dining room to the left. Is all black and yellow tile fully equipped with electric range, electric refrigeration, and garbage Incinerator. A service en trance, a maid's room with bath and a direct entrance to the gar ages lie beyond the kitchen. Two doors, one from the kitchen and another from the dining room, lead to the attractive little break fast room which has Its entire north wall In window. Peach colored tile floor, peach colored panelling and the gayest and most colorful wall paper Imaginable In peach and green make the breakfast room a penect Joy. The full length win dow open also to a little lerrnro Re-Roof Now on Easy Terms APPLIED BY ROOF SPECIALISTS Phone 487 or come in for FREE estimate on Pioneer Composition Roofing Carltcn Pioneer Roofing Co. Phono 487-A. B. Chriitrnson, Mr. 1: N. Front St. AUTHORIZED APPLICATION AGENTS FIREPLACES Remodeled Inefficient and smoking fireplaces re modeled with the Perrine System be come efficient and a pleasure. Abso lute control of the fire in the firebox. Before you build a new fireplace call IIILLMAN FUEL CO. Phone 1855 Broadway & Hood Sts. Wc demonHlraled at (he slnlc fair. A. G. STEVENS, Contractor Attractive new rwidrnce of Mr. and Mrs. O. F. Johnson on West Lincoln street Is a sightly addition to the Fairmount Hill section. Carl Bah (burs Is the contractor. Clacnce Smith designed the building;. where breakfast may be taXen on summer mornings. Going back to the main entrance half from the breakfast room via the dining room one starts up the circular stairway. On the second floor one realizes that Mr. and Mrs. Johnson have planned their home primarily as oorne, neglect ing nothing that would all to the pleasure and comfort of their two children, a little daughter eight years old and a small wn aged four. Directly ahead at the top of the stairway is the entrance to the nursery, a big bright sunny room with a quaint old English fireplace In colorful tile with a round hearth. The walls and ceiling are covered with gay paper in silver and blue bespeaking fairyland and its inhab itants. Little elves, dozens and dozens of them, are being cut out and the small boy in the family is having a hand in deciding on which bubbles on the wall these fairy creatures shall be placed. A sliding door leads to the sitting room of the master's suite. Another fire place occupies a corner of the sit ting room and double doors lead to a big bedroom wtih windows on two ides and big doors opening to an unroofed porch on the third. Tiny iron balconies opening up over the main entrance on the first noor, lead from the nursery and the sit ting room. The bathroom in the master's suite is entirely of old rose and black tile with recessed tub and recessed shower. Cedar lined closets, large closets all of them, linen closets, laundry shutes are only a few of the ser vice features of the second floor. Coming from the nursery or the sitting room, one reenters the hall which runs the entire length of the second floor. At the right is the guett -room, pure colonial In its wall paper and ivory finish. The big bath at one side Is silver and black tile. The room which will belong to the daughter of the house when she is a few years older will not be finished at this time as Mr. and Mrs. Johnson wish to give her per sonal choice in deciding what type of room she wishes. At the extreme west end of the nail, and down two steps, is one of the most interesting features of the entire house a playroom for the children. High dormer windows furnish perfect lighting. At one end of the room is a small stage where the children caji present their own amateur theatricals. The third floor will be finished later with b 11 lard tables and for dancing. Oak floors are found throughout the entire house. Heating Is fur nished by an oil burning furnace in addition to the five fireplaces. Clarence Smith was architect and Carl Bahlburg was the contractor in charge of construction. Local firms only have been employed In the building. Sir William Hart Dyke, who ser ved as chief Whip to blsrael during his last administration, recently cel ebrated his ninety-second birthday at Lulllngstone Castle, Dart ford, Fmrlnnd. -m rwM4T- r'rr Kifl NECESSARY TO FINISH AIRPORT Barring some unfor&een expense1 that Is not now anticipated, a suf ficient sum will remain In the mun icipal airport fund after all expen ditures at present contemplated are taken care of, to complete the orig inal plans for the airplane hangar by paving the floor of that struc ture, a shop floor 17 by 60 feet, and a warming up apron 80 by 100 feet, a study of records on file In the city recorder's office in dicates. Members of the airport commit-1 sion whose plans so far have re ceived the endorsement of the city council, had not had a financial statement recently and could give, no indication until the matter has been formally taken up by the com-1 mis-sion, whether or not the workj would be completed at this time. The fund at the present time has a balance of $17,438.95, according to the recorder s figures. From this must be paid the contract price) of $10,800 on the new hangar building which Is scheduled for com pletion next week; allowance of not more than $3500 for additional drainage of the landing field that may be necessary. A total of $3,- I 129.59 would then remain. Probably not more than $600 to $700 of this amount will be exhaust ed by outstanding bills, the largest of ! which will be an Item of $375 to pay the insurance premium on the new structure. A happy combination of circum stances could be employed to hold the cost of the necessary concrete work to around $2,000, according to Lee U. Eyerly, superintendent of the airport. Concrete for a similar purpo'e was laid at the Swan Island air port In Portland at a cost of B0 cent a square yard according to information here, and it is believed the local work could be done at a cost of not to exceed $1 a yard, or less than $2,000 for the 1801 square yards required. Ordinary sidewalk specifications would meet the rf)iimnpnts, ac "EVERYTHING" IN BUILDING MATERIALS Call us for Building Materia'. Estimates cheerfully given SLAB WOOL) EXTRA GOOD QUALITY BUY YOUR WINTER SUPPLY NOW COB5S & MITCHELL A. B. Kf'.LSAY, Mer. 349 S. 13th STREET Mutual Savings & Loan Association A Salem Institution Organized in 1910 PLACE YOl'R SAVINGS WITH LS Let us finance your home on weekly or monthly payments 142 SOUTH LIBliliTY STREET Direct from factory to the home Largest builders of I'ianoa in the world. Kimball I'ianos, IMayer Timios. Pipe Organs, Grands, Phonographs, Radios , SAVE THE MIDDLEMEN'S PROFITS, on OK THE HIGH KENT DISTRICT. KIMBALL PIANO HOUSE 2020 No. CAPITOL ST. PHONE 3632 Opposite Hollywood Theater If Inronvcnlrnt to rail phon, for demonstration 1 cording to L L Jensen, archi tect who designed the hangar, and Eyerly, who says the hard packed and artificially drained plot at the hangar contains sufficient gravel body to hold a four-inch depth of pavement indefinitely under the use It will have. No vehicles except planes would be permitted on It. Eyerly said. Unless these facilities are com pleted, It will require a force of some 12 or 15 men to place the larger planes Inside the hangar, whereas the planes could taxi onto the concrete apron and be moved easily into the building by two or three men If the ihip stood on a hard, smooth surface. This fact was thoroughly dem onstrated during the past week when a large airplane enroute to its home field in Portland was com pelled by darkness to spend the night here. Eyerly believs there Is sufficient natural drainage of the landing field so that the contemplated ex penditure for this item will be en tirely unnecessary. SEBASTIAN A1CHER BUILDS NEW HOME Woodburn Sebastlaln Aircher Is constructing a beautiful modern home on his forty acre tract of land 3 'i miles east of Woodburn on the Mt. Angel highway. The house is a semi-bungalow of hol low tile with seven rooms, bat!i, breakfast nook and full basement and is situated on a sightly hill just off the highway. The carpenter work Is being done by Hughes brothers and the ma sonry by Theron Finch. The new home will not be finished until next spring. INJURED WORKMAN BACK ON STATE JOB Foreman Smith, employed by the Ross B. Hammond company, Port land contractors engaged in the construction of the new five story oitice building for the state, re turned to the Job Wednesday after being laid oir a week. Smith slipped and leu against a projecting rein forcing bar in the basement, of the building, forcing it into his flesh in :np srrnin region, thrw inches. Const-ucUon on the airplane hangar and ah op at the Salem mu nicipal airport Is rapidly nearlng completion, with all except a few odds and ends of carpenter work expected to be finished by Saturday night, and the structure ready for final Inspection probably by the middle of next week. Steel doors arrived early in the week and hanging or them was ex pected to be completed by Monday or ruesaay. The building, of mill construc tion and finished over all with cor rugated iron, includes the hangar proper, 80 by 100 feet, and a shed type of shop and olfice, 17 by 100 leet, oi tno same construction the main structure. An extension tower equivalent to a second story. 17 by 17 feet provides sleeping quarters for an attendant over the shop. The entire building Is laid on concrete foundations with concrete floors and warming-up apron omutea irom tne general contract WhUe no definite plan for the completion of these Items had been worked out, it was thought by members of the municipal airport commission, under authority vest ed In it by the city council, that If sufficient funds remained from the $50,000 airport bond Issue to complete these latter items, some arrangement whereby the city pav ing plant might do the additional concrete work at a considerable saving of expense could be made. A. J. Anderson, Salem contrac tor, has had charge of general contract. 1 L. Jensen, local archi tect, was commissioned by the air port committee to draw the plane. Under the general contract the cost of the structure was $10,800. ine bunding, will house about nine airplanes with a 34 to 40 foot wing spread, according to Lee U. Eyerly, superintendent of the Sa lem airport. Shop equipment as well as snare parts and stock will be made avail able by the Eyerly Aircraft corpor ation for the repair of planes land ing here and requiring such service. BANK BUILDING LIFT IS GIVEN OVERHAUL Callers and tennanU in the of fices in the five story Bank of Commerce building were compelled to walk Friday while workmen were installing a new elevator car. new doors and wiring In the elevator shaft. Inspection of the cables and motor equipment showed them to oe in nrst class condition. It was said. The new cage will operate at the same speed as the old one. Although the elevator can be oper ated automatically from any floor, an operator Is in charge during eight hours of thi dav. The new effects in paint and papering are at your command at the Hutcheon Paint Store on South Commercial St. The modern methods in applying paints and finishes, the latest patterns in wall paper await your selection. Hutcheon Paint Store 154 S. Commercial St. Phone 594 "Buy your paint at a paint store." Watch! Kingwood Heights Grow Several New Homes Under Construction Pure Water! Wonderful View! Pure Air! Drive Up and See Salem's Beauty Spot diiMli i fey KiifO! ' PLAN NO. 414 EXTERIOK IS DELIGHTFUL Distinctiveness and charm of ex terior is the outstanding feature of this four-room house design. Through a combined use of stuc co, half-timbers and shakes a par ticularly pleaslnr effect has been obtained. The house is one that will add much to the pride of own ership, when set in a properly shrubbed location. Although the dinette Is large enough for a separate room, it is not classed as one of the major in terior units of the bouse. The dinette is in the gabled extension of the front, connected with the living room and kitchen. Two sets of blueprints and specifications for construction of this house may be obtained for a reasonable fee upon application to the Capi- w juuriui. RUBBER TILE FLOOR FIRST OF ITS KIND With completion of the new floor covering In three corridors the Mount Crest Abbey mausoleum Sat urday, Salem, will have the first mausoleum In the United States and as far as Is known. In the world. with a hard rubber tile floor cover ing, according to Foreman Stein- ward In charge of the United States Rubber Company crew which is In stalling the new floor. Hard rubber tile has been adap ted as a floor covering for hotel foyers, corridors, office buildings. kitchens, dining rooms, In office buildings, kitchens, hospital cor ridors and surgeries, but never be fore In a mausoleum. Lack of artificial heat to counter act capillary attraction made pos sible damage from moisture one of the big problems, but this Is be lieved to have overcome In the water-proofing process employed on the base. PI Kit SON STILL ILL Butteville M. A. Pierson, who was injured in an auto accident last Sunday, while delivering papers on his route, is improving very slowly, and Is not yet able to be out of bed. His son is carrying the Oregonian during Pierson's illness. Modernize Your HOME A ? -J Hi I II E ' f. ft kU Y Mj UH'4141 TitxariAPi Independence Dr. M. J. Butler,, local dentist, is attending night classes In Portland, conducted by the Coe Dental laboratories of Chl cago, every night during this week. SACRIFICE Home Buy! I have taken in exchange for other property a 6 room house In Salem which I have no use for and will give an exceptional ly good deal to a buyer who really means business. House has furnace, laundry trays, etc. Corner lot, paved street, built last April. Small down payment or light car, and easy monthly payments to the right party. I want to KNOW that It Is so'd. CALL AFTER 6 P. M. OR SUNDAY INQUIRE 1020 MADISON STREET IN HOLLYWOOD Gcsa?asteed Soldi Less Than CREDIT GLADLY PAY AS YOU ARE PAID ' !' ' J We also carry a complete line of soil fittings, pipes, etc, necessary to complete a jnb MESHER PLUMBING SUPPLY COMPANY PHONE 3700 2S3 CHEMEKETA STREET 'i Block West of Commercial Salem, Ore. BRANCHES IN Portland, Ore. Seattle, Wash Tacoma, Wash. Aberdeen, Wash. All concrete work on the new state office building, with the ex ception of a pent house, on the roof, for the elevator shaft will be finish ed Monday when the last of the roof is poured Monday, according to C. W. Nelson, superintendent of con struction for Ross B. Hammond, company Portland, general con tractors. Hanging of metal lath has been l underway since Wednesday, and plastering will be started on the first floor Monday morning. Hollow tile walls were also being laid on first floor, and plumbers had made considerable progress on the second floor level. Terra cotta stone was mostly on the ground and water -proof ing bad been sufficiently completed to start facing the building as soon as the last of the concrete forms are re moved from the building. All floors except corridors, lava tories and lounge, had received finishing concrete as each floor was poured. Only risers remain to be installed on stairways. The last contract for work on the building, of any consequence, was let Thursday when the state board of control awarded the contract for office lighting fixtures to the En glish and Baker company of Port" land, on a bid of $7283.70, and for corridor and outside lighting fix tures to Eoff electric company of Salem., on a bid of $4450, according to Carle Abrams, secartary of thea board. One 5-ft. Bath Tub, complete. One 17x19 Apron Basin, com plete. One China Toilet, complete. One 20x30 one-piece ..Sink, complete. One 30-gaI. Boiler, complete. nnwiv BUYS THIS COMPLETE SET Easv Payments $3.00 Monthly On Terms