Information Sheet: House Beautiful Magazine, "House Beautiful's "Best Small House '84," 1984

Abstract

Information Sheet from House Beautiful Magazine discussing their 1984 "Best Small House" competition. This item explains House Beautiful Magazine's reasoning for starting the small house competition in 1982 and the process through which a winning design was chosen. Also discussed was the 1984 winning design, submitted by Lester Walker of Woodstock, New York. This design, which was constructed in Reston, Virginia on a wooded half acre lot, called for a house with seven rooms that added up to 1,500 square feet. Planned Community Archives Collection, 457.10