A Greater D Roit Country Life Monthly
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A Greater D roit Country Life Monthly THE AFTERGLOW ,t@>-'11================�,� Residents of 1 I Branch Office LOCKWOOD Bloomfield Hills and Oakland County THE OLD MILL \ A Community of Will find this Bank convenient ' 10 and 20 Acre ROCHESTER for your local account FARM ESTATES Call and get acquainted and make use of our services My plan is to represent your interests, using the companies TAYLOR, HOLT & BUCKLEY, Inc. whose contracts are best suited t0 fit your individual needs. Paid on 1809-10 STROH BUILDING 4% Savings �- Life Insurance for CADILLAC 2572 Inter est Accounts Personal Estates Estate Taxes Corporations Inheritance Taxes HOLFORD LANE FARMINGTON \Voons I DODGE ROAD FARMINGTON Pontiac Commercial & Savings Bank Capital and Surplus: $1,000,000.00 Offices: Phones: "The Largest Bank in Oakland County" 908 Penobscot Bldg. Detroit Cadillac 6392·93 Pontiac, Michigan tit,C!!P't================�l, �--------------;--------,� illourqurst Dodge Brothers on tqr 11Hxtr AND A highly restricted residental Packard Motor Vehicles lake section, where one may en joy both winter and summer life. Hidden among the wooded hills, overlooking beautiful Loon Sales and Service Lake, within 28 miles of Detroit. n 0 3 co. See this without delay EVANS-JACKSON MOTOR 119 SOUTH WOODWARD AVENUE BIRMINGHAM Phone 301 Birmingham, Michigan 131 South Woodward Avenue Telephone 985 THE AFTERGLOW A Magazine loomfield Dedicated to of the Residents the Interests of Bloomfield VOLUME 1 Hills .... NUMBER 5 -�" Oa/J/e o/' .Contents JULY, 1925 Cover Design Page A Page of Pageant Scenes By Elinor Millington Upstairs? Downstairs? An Int 4 erview , , ' ' ' ' Ballade, Not of Heat, But of Humidity erse , ' 5 v by Howard Wee�s. Decoration by With the Grand Opera Stars , Reed Bachman 7 By G. College \\!omen of Birmingham Organize Schlotterbec� 8 By Cora· H. Farrar 9 Quartermore, the Home of Mr. Gordon Mendelssohn In the Days of Real Sport 10 Cartoon By Forrest S. Campbel! 12 Bloomfield Society ' By Jimmie Vhay 13 By Marjorie Bloomfield Horses Take Blue Ribbons Avery 14 Editorial Page 16 Books 18 By A Page of Club Activities Howard Wee�s 19 20 • - A Distinguished Address • - (.(.Bloomfield Hills'' N a large m.:troplitan area, there is inevitably fieid Village is to be instantly identified with a marked preference by persons of culture and families of good taste. 450 of these beautiful residence refinement for certain residential sections. More than I sites are now sold. Building has commenced. Here for natural beauty, Such districts are preferred is every city convenience-sidewalks, water, sew for spaciousness of building lots, for location out er, winding drives, proximity to Birmingham's side the smoky, congested factory areas, yet acces shops and schools, and a motor bus line direct to sible to the business center. All are characteristics Detroit's city hall. The present cost of Bloomfield of Bloomfield Village! Village building sites, with frontage of 80 feet or Even more important, perhaps is the type of more along winding drives, is surprisingly low. builder who residences. Because of the outstanding attractive It is the ideal location for the home hesitates to incur the maintenance cost of a large ness of Bloomfield Village homes, which must con estate, yet who insists upon the attractive sur form to very rigid building restrictions, and the roundings and exclusiveness found only in Bloom magnificence of nearby estates-to live at Bloom- field Hills. Judson Br4dway Co.VE. 533 MAJESTIC BLDG. 3 DWARD A 15 s. WOO PHONEMAIN004!5_ DETROIT""ne a,(ll tors PH ONE BIRMINGHAI\! 38 Pho11e Main 0045 for an ;//ustrat,d booklet; or dri•e to our Bloomfield V;tlaie branch office turning weJt at Birmingham on Maple Road to the interJtction of Cranbrook Road THE AFTER.GLOW THE AFTERGLOW Upffairs? Vownflairs? ?\lever cJliind the Stairs.' An Interview with D. ALLEN WRIGHT, Architect, Concer ning the American Trend Toward One-Story Homes of Character and Distinction T least one consideration that is diminated _in the pla_n, are subscribing so enthusiastically to this logical plan of A ning of a home is the all absorbing question of stairs house construction. a one-story house is the type chosen. Upon that when It is a native American trait that the race favors · 1ges an interesting study, a study of the living ch m ce h11 marked on one floor. Witness the vast number of apartment ·can trend toward houses o f hc b aracter·1 u1 t on Amen one dwellers in substantiation. Blocks upon blocks of little cot, Volumes can be expen d ed d'1scussing · pomts· fl pro and tages and simple bungalows bear this truth out further. this type of architecture. Perhaps an explana c:tabout Whether it is the innate New England thrift of our fore, . points will show why the Umted States as a t1on o f a few bears, or the hard-headed practicality of the people, the fact Bloomfied Hills and B'1rmmg · h am, m· · 1 part1cu whoe 1 , and ar, remains that Americans do not need to be sold on the idea of one-floor living. With this as a background, it is quite natural that the next step in the growth of popularity for this class house, should be in refining its fundamental design, in making it more distinctive, in creating out of this basic ground work a home of true character. Here the World War comes in for its part in the transformation of the American one-story house into a thing of beauty. We all know that the native American has a marvelously retentive memory. Not thorough in its retentiveness, necessarily, but a mind that, impressed by the artistry and beauty of an object, carries for a long time the vague consciousness of having been impressed. In 1917 America entered the war. Americans by the thousands flocked over, seas were billeted in France, England, Bel, Cecil F. Charlton residence, Birmingham giu� and elsewhere on the Continent. They lived in the midst of European life, architecture and activity. And the charm, ing simplicity of the one-story houses,. so common in Europe, made an indelible 1m, pression upon their retenti_ve_ American memories. Whether the bmlding was an atelier in France, a Belgium carpenter shop, or a quaint thatched garden cottage in Eng, land, the varied possibilities· of beauty and convenience which the one-story structure embodied, made a strong register in the American minds. No wonder, then, when the Uni_ted States was back again upon a peace-time footing with home building. activities re sumed that many an ex-soldier would ex claim: "Well, I want to build a house on one floor, not an ordinary bungalow, but a cute little place-you know, something like we used to see in France." The war may well be said to have created a veritable renaissance in American house for Woodruff, Birmingham design. Impressions gained across the wa- estate given y the National Woman's Built W. J. A page of scenes from the pageant in the Gree� Open Air 'Theatre on the Booth b party, June 6. THE AFTERGLOW THE AFTERGLOW type limited to the smaller structures. Many and many a four and five-bedroom place rambles delightfully over one floor, with interesting gables and wings and breaks in the roof line to add character to the whole design. Architects and builders have proved that the idea of not building a large house on one floor, is as fallacious as the theory of never building a home without putting a full basement under it. OF The advantages of one-floor construction? Oh, they are countless. Much less effort is expended in J:iousekeeping. Bedrooms can get full benefit of any gardening or land, By Howard W ee�s scaping about the place. A low-lying artis, Reed tic effect is easily procurable. Especially Decoration by Bachman true of the smaller design is the fact that The brightest beams of summer sun the all too common top-heavy appearance is Have never filled me with dismay; completely eliminated. One-story design In torrid August I'm the one permits of a greater using of a house. And, Who's always feeling blithe and gay, after all, is that not the main purpose of a Who daily chirps a cheerful lay- home: to be used? That is, if there's enough aridity Because, you know, I always say It's not the heat, it's the humidity. ter did much to remedy the evils of past practices. It had long been a somewhat dis, Some folks are like the well-known bun graceful American custom when a home was _ As hot and cross the livelong day ' contemplated, to jump into the w�1tmg autu, (Please try to overlook the pun; mobile, dash madly about lookmg for an It helped the rhyme, so pardon, pray). idea already expressed in concrete, frame Complaining never seems to pay, or brick form; then to return home tn, It just disrupts the day's placidity; umphant, more often than not with an To those who moan, I murmur, "Nay, execrable design to copy brazenly, rather It's not the heat, it's the humidity." than a good one to imitate judiciously. Travel the nation over and you will find July's fierce flame to me is fun; this practice changing. From the haciendas I bask in bright Apollo's ray, of California to the cottages of Cape Cod Then evenings when my work is done, -yes, in the hills_ of Bloomfield and Bir And as I sit in twilight gray, mingham, you will find gomg up con, And watch the sunshine fade away, stantly homes built on one floor.