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1939 NY World's Fair - Town of Tomorrow
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The Town of Tomorrow
House # 19 - The Fire Safe Home
Architect: Perry M. Duncan
Furnishings by: James McCutcheon & Co.
In designing this house the architect's aim was to create a dignified, livable house, a home without pretentions but stressing rather the quality and fire-safeness of the con-struction and materials used.
House 19 - The Fire-Safe Home From the Gottscho-Schleisner Collection (Library of Congress)
House 19 - The Fire-Safe Home
House 19 - The Fire-Safe Home Sitting Room
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Its beauty is derived from its carefully studied proportions, window arrangements and blending of materials selected. In plan the rooms are arranged with utmost care for living and operation. A feature is a Garden Room or glassed over terrace with extending pool.
House 19 - The Fire-Safe Home blueprint
In 1938, fire took an estimated toll of $302,050,000 in property values. A large part of this loss was uninsured. Sound insurance is vitally necessary to protect property values. For 86 years The Home Insurance Company of New York, through its various forms of fire insurance, has helped to remove the financial burden resulting from unexpected and unpredictable loss of property. Today this company is America's leading insurance protector of American Homes and the homes of American industry. Through world wide facilities it writes all kinds of fire, automobile, marine and allied lines of insurance.
House 19 - The Fire-Safe Home drawing
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 Light-Better Sight Bureau and electric wiring and wiring devices are installed under specifications of the National Adequate Wiring Bureau.