Your Home. by 1940s HOUSE PLANS) Howard H. Riley, Architect - No date. Ca. 1940.

Seattle.: National Home Advisory Association.. First Edition.. No date. Ca. 1940.. Booklet in paper wraps, 10 ¾ x 8 ¼ inches, 48 pp., picturing, through floorplans and a drawing of each home’s exterior, a variety of inexpensive ($6,000.00 or less) homes. Booklet in good condition, with discoloration and light soiling to rear cover. Contents clean and bright. The plans for the homes are the work of Howard H. Riley (Architect) with headquarters in Seattle’s Vance Building. Riley had earlier (1937) published a collection of home plans titled "Small Homes" which can be viewed on-line. As no mention is made of shortages of building materials, as would be the case following WWII, it is assumed the booklet predates the U.S. entry into that war (circa 1940). Decorating ideas are provided by the department store Frederick & Nelson, long out of business. Homes pictured and described range in size from 550 square feet to over 1100 square feet. An interesting collection of West Coast small home designs emerging at the end of the Great Depression. Modest in size, home ownership is stressed as affordable to a wide public with the advent of financing through the Federal Housing Administration (1934). Good condition with cover issue noted. A useful collection of affordable homes available to the general public as the Depression morphs into the War economy of the 1940s. .