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The Town of Tomorrow
House # 16 - The Kelvin Home
Architect: James W. O'Connor
Furnishings by: Fredrick Loeser & Com, Inc
House 16 - The Kelvin Home From the Gottscho-Schleisner Collection (Library of Congress)
With its quaint charm and quiet hospitality, the Kelvin Home breathes the spirit of New England's hallowed days. Yet step inside-and the world of tomorrow awaits you! Daily living brought to the effortless, automatic perfection made possible by the complete electrical home equipment of the Nash-Kelvinator Corporation.
House 16 - The Kelvin Home blueprint
As shown in the following detailed description, this house is fully equipped with year'-round air conditioning and electrical equipment for hot water supply, electric refrigeration, electric cooking, electrical laundry work.
It is fully supplied by various items of Kelvinator manufacture. All exterior and interior walls and trim are finished with Keystone Paints.
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Major sponsors are listed on the front cover and full details as to products used in this house are given in following paragraphs, together with literature and services available to the home builder.
Readers are advised to consult these manufacturers for names of local distributors and any other desired information. All lighting is planned according to standards of the National Better LightBetter Sight Bureau. Electric wiring and wiring devices are installed under the standards of the National Adequate Wiring Bureau, 155 East 44th Street, New York.
House 16 - The Kelvin Home drawing
Furnishings and decoration are by Frederick Loeser & Co., Inc., Brooklyn, N. Y., from whom prices and full information can be obtained.
And there's a "House of Tomorrow" on wheels, too ... the Nash Ambassador Eight sedan, standing in the driveway.
Inside its interior, you experience true conditioned-air living room comfort ... guarded against winter temperature changes by the Nash "Weather Eye" system. There's no dust or drafts to Nash travel, the year 'round.