American Builder Including Building Developer by Johnson Bernard Peker Charles Editors (2 results)

Single Issue Magazine. Condition: Fair. First Edition. 164 pages. Features: Editorial discusses the likely impact of the October 29 stock market crash on the building business; Optimistic Outlook for Sound Construction Projects - interview with Nicholas Roberts of S.W. Straus & Co.; President Hoover Enlists Builders to Stimulate Business - article with group photo; "Modernesque" - unique home built by McWilliams and Meloney outside Philadelphia; Mortgages Yielding Higher; How to Build the Colonial Entrance Pictured on Front cover; Waste not high wages makes building costly; The Story of the Development of Gladstone Manor, located in Lansdowne Borough, PA; Public Garages - a discussion of the layout of special buildings devoted to the handling and storing of motor cars - article with photo of the Glenn E. Holmes Garage, Chicago; A Sound Proof Studio Apartment - The Sherman Square Studios, West 73rd St., New York, are built to interest singers, artists and writers; Conveniently Equipped Kitchens Help Builders Sell; Six Model Homes in Cleveland; Home Plan Suggestions; All-Feature Home - complete workings plans to one-eighth inch scale for a model brick bungalow; Where Stores and Apartments are Combined - Rissman and Hirschfeld Architects designed a triangular structure at the diagonal intersection of Milwaukee Ave. and Diversey Blvd. in Chicagp; Framing the Gambrel Roof; Dozens of sensational illustrated ads, some in color, are sure to tickle any modern designer with a taste for the past; and more. Some writing on heavily-worn color-illustrated covers. Binding intact. A worthy reference copy of this wonderful vintage issue.

Single Issue Magazine. Condition: Fair. First Edition. 212 pages. Features: Straight Line Architecture - the modern trend in office buildings; Organizing a Modernizing Campaign for Your Town; Ornamental Flashings - New York Architect Henry J. McGill starts a new trend in design; Firesafe and Rigid Construction - light steel joists and masonry bearing walls used by the Warren E. Richards Company of Cincinnati; Standard Loading Table for Open Web Steel Joists; San Antonio's Parkmoor Place successfully developed by Guaranty Building Corporation, L.E. Fite, President; Your Clients Want Kitchen Ventilators!; Chicago Three-Family Co-op Apartment Design; The Livingston Apartments, Forest Hills, Long Island; The Benjamin Franklin Apartments, Los Angeles; Beaux-Arts Studio Apartments, New York City; Home Plan Suggestions - residence of W.F. Spencer, Esq., of Erie, PA; Moderne Electric Home; Graceful Gambrels; Modern Home Interiors - details of a breakfast room; All-feature Home - complete working plans for an English style house of eight rooms presented in one-eighth-inch scale drawings; Getting the Most Out of Power Saws; Joining Different Pitches; Common Sense in Fireplace Construction; Dozens of sensational illustrated ads - some in color - are sure to tickle any modern designers with a taste for the past; and more. Writing on front cover. Above-average wear to color-illustrated covers. Back cover barely holding. Binding intact. A worthy copy of this marvelous vintage issue.