Table Of ContentYOUR HOUSE PLANNING WORKBOOK
FOR MISSOULA, MONTANA
A Project
Presented to
the Faculty of the School of Education
The University of Southern California
In Partial Fulfillment
Of the Requirements for the Degree
Master of Science in Education
by
Idabel MnLeish Jordan
June 1950
UMI Number: EP46392
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This project report, written under the direction
of the candidate’s adviser and approved by him,
has been presented to and accepted by the Faculty
of the School of Education in partial fulfillment of
the requirements for the degree of Master of
Science in Education.
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VIEW OP MISSOULA., MONTANA, APRIL 1950
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TABLE OP CONTENTS
CHAPTER PAGE
I. THE PROBLEM.................................... X
Statement of the probl e m .................... 1
Purpose ....................................... X
Approach .................................... 1
Delimiting of the problem ................... 3
Related literature ....................... . 3
II. CONSTRUCTION OP THE WORKSHEETS............... 5
Sources of the worksheet material........... 5
Organization of the worksheet material . . . 7
Method of handling the material............. 9
III. WORKSHEETS FOR HOUSE PLANNERS IN MISSOULA,
MONTANA......................................... 11
Community, Missoula, M o ntana . 13
Neighborhood Selection ..................... 23
Plot Choosing................................ 35
Plot Buying .............. 46
Costs of H o u s e .............................. 51
Financing the House.......................... 62
House Designing................. 77
Architect Administration................... 91
Contractor Agreements....................... 97
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CHAPTER PAGE
XV. CONCLUSIONS..................................... 106
BIBLIOGRAPHY ....................................... 108
APPENDIX A. Statements, guidance and sources for
answering the worksheet questions................ 116
APPENDIX B. Notes on house planning taken during
personal interviews in Missoula, Montana . . . . 192
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LIST OP FIGURES
FIGURE PAGE
View of Missoula, Montana, April 1950 - Frontispiece.
1. Building Zone Map of Missoula...................... 12
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2 Selecting a Livable Neighborhood ............. . 19
3. The Home Site ..................................... 31
4. Financing the H o m e ................................. 58
5. Designing the H o m e .................................69
6. Business Dealings .............................. 86
7. Well Kept Missoula House and Yard Show Pride in
Ownership .............. 125
8. Pioneering in a Sparsely Settled Neighborhood
in Missoula......................................126
9. Missoula House Planned to Take Advantage of a
Slope ..........................................136
10* Corner Plot with Short Drive to a Side Garage
Saves a Missoula Lawn...........................138
11. Unquestioned Title is Vital to All Home Owners
in Missoula......................................147
12. Cost of Landscaping Must be Added to Cost of
Missoula House ................................ 154
13. In Missoula, a Brick House Has a Low Insurance
R a t e ............................................ 158
FIGURE PAGE
14. F.H.A. Follows a Formula in Missoula Which
Demands Standard House Plans ................. 163
15. L-Shaped House Under Construction in Missoula 169
16. Flat Sloping Roof is Satisfactory in Missoula 172
17. Recently Completed Missoula House ............ 183
18. Missoula House Under Construction ............ 187
19. What to See and Do Around Missoula ........... 237
Photographs by Arthur McLeish Jordan
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PREFACE
To build a house is not always a desire fostered by
the necessity for shelter. A house can be the realization
of a desire to create. Material monuments of your past
endeavors can become constant symbols of goals achieved and
effort well placed. Another deep-rooted yearning within
your breast is to be essential to those dear to you, to
your community, to your democracy and to posterity. Only
thus do you and your neighbors, with other communities,
make America the greatest nation in the world.
During your daily living you may glean much informa
tion and many ideas on house planning while you engage in
conversation, through your observations, as you listen to
authorities, or from your reading. This data will be
available, when house building time arrives, if you estab
lish a definite plan for recording it. Experience has
taught you that data recalled may be inaccurate. Research
studies maintain that, after a relatively short lapse of
time, you retain only seven per cent of informational
material read once, and that you have a chance of recalling
only about twenty to thirty per cent of such material read
once. Few of you enjoy rereading a book in order to recap
ture pertinent information.
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problems to the quite personalized investigations.
If this workbook is augmented with pencilled figures
or notes, these can be replaced at a later date as prices
and conditions change. Add to it, or eliminate as you ra
tionalize with yourself. Let it contain your own tastes
and requirements. Use the help and suggestions offered by
reputable professional people and builders who have been
interviewed. They used a vocabulary familiar to a layman
since they are dealing, constantly with the public.
Presented is a workbook intended to serve two
functions: (1) to give definite directions and rules of
procedure for house planning preparation; (2) to provide
models or patterns for imitation. Both of these purposes
are limited in one small manuscript; hence, the extensive
bibliography is included for supplementary directions and
help. These will make possible clear insights into details
which this guide is forced to omit.
Since these worksheets were prepared by a teacher,
with nineteen years of experience in adult and high school
classes, tested and contemporary educational practices and
theories have been embodied. House planning or real estate
investment classes or customers1 service, for building
material or financing companies, could economically mimeo
graph or hectograph the worksheets, with or without the
supplied answers. The readiness, requirements, and endea
