American Builder [Magazine], Including "Building Developer" and "Home Building", April, 1930, Vol. 49, No. 1

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. Book