Home Booster Building Trade Catalog - 1939
Walsh Plan Service. HOME BUILDING BOOSTER. Jefferson City, Missouri. Nd. c. 1939. Pict. wraps. 8 pgs. Advertisements for home building related businesses, 11 homes featured with specifications and information, other homes pictured. Text on page 1 states that the house pictured "are divided into two basic groups...The first offers variations of the two-story, five room plan...; the second group offers variations of the one story, four room house." The book provides a list of "tips" when buying a lot: "Neighborhood's status (developing, deteriorating, standing still)"; "Freedom from undesirable situation (as nearby cemetery"; further bland considerations (" Desirability of lot", etc." The publication is a joint effort involving the National Small Homes Demonstration Inc. (a non-profit), and various advertisers, including the Jefferson City Building & Loan Association and the Capital City Building and Loan Association, the intention being to develop "low cost home designs without loss of efficiency." No OCLC listing.