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e use of your blueprints my carpenter <br />able to work without mistake or de- <br />r bfll ofmaterials /was able io <br />eeded for my house and no <br />Yo catalog and low prices I <br />to complete, plaster, paint and all, <br />Feather came on. I saved as much as <br />7 some of the finishing lumber. /f / <br />home, my millwork will come from <br />k and Company <br />kson, 1913 <br />•t reason i elected to build a <br />jack house was not to save <br />Ont -day lumber, and It was my <br />house built in the same old <br />on that we saw before the war <br />s, I wanted quantity, and, last, I <br />it Whetherlsavedanymoney <br />end / don care. /got exactly <br />'in entirety satisfied. / cannot <br />he treatment / received from <br />l am Particularly grateful for <br />?stions and interest in my <br />more than this: /f it were <br />uild another house, l would <br />way- <br />The Magnolia (1927), South <br />Bend, Ind. The Magnolia <br />was first featured in the <br />1918 Modem Homes cata- <br />log, which advertised it for <br />$5,140. (John Helmer) <br />s an Air Force family, we have lived with ourfour <br />C::;;'l children in many strange, wonderful and not -so - <br />wonderful houses, large and small, throughout the world. <br />In 1969, on retirement from the Air Force, .we purchased <br />our dream house in South Bend, Ind., a two-story neo- <br />classical structure built in 1927. R were very happy with <br />our purchase, our first real home, and named it April <br />House. 1% planted several magnolias in front. <br />-R did some redecorating but left the kitchen as it <br />was, with its blue and white tile floor. R are both cooks, <br />and the kitchen became the heart of our home. It was the <br />place for our cooking classes (Gourmet 101, Indiana Uni- <br />versity at South Bend) and where the Notre Dame Cook <br />Book was bom. Holidays, graduations, weddings and <br />christenings were all an important part of the kitchen <br />activities. <br />In 1982 we discovered that our house was the Magno- <br />lia, a Sears Honor Bill house. We were quite excited and <br />very proud—we felt the house was true Americana. The <br />magnolias in front had more meaning than ever before, <br />and we planted several more along the side. And even <br />though the children are gone, our dream house is still <br />full—with students, family and friends. <br />Francis A. and Florence G. Yeandel, 1986 <br />South Bend, Ind. <br />13 <br />