White House Conference on Home Building & Home Ownership
Record Group 167, Series 77
Records Maintained by Dan Wheeler
Box Contents
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General File
Correspondence
1931
January 20--November 30
December
1932
January 4--February 27
March 1--April 30
May 2--June 30
July 1--August 31
October 1--December 31
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1933
January 4--June 1
Undated
Addresses
At the Opening of the Conference on Home Building and
Ownership, December 2, 1931
At International Radiotelegraph Conference, 1927
General File
American Engineering Council, 1924-1926
Bibliography on Studies of Costs and Standards of Living, 1930
Building Codes
Clipping about the Conference: The Evening Star, 1933
Conference Committees
Grouping
of Committees
of Reports
List of Committee Members
Planning Committee: Members, etc.
Preliminary Bibliographies for Committees, 1930
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Preliminary Outline of Conference
Preliminary Questions of Committees
Report Summary of Conference Committee Reports
Scope of Work
Copyrights
District of Columbia Map
Final Reports: Correction Costs and Revisions
Home Mortgage Bank Bill, 1931
Hoover’s Final Message to Conference
Housing in Unincorporated Areas
Correspondence, 1931-33
Reports, 1931
Members of Planning Boards in Massachusetts, 1924
Minutes and Memoranda of Meeting of Personnel, 1931
Minutes of Planning Committee, 1930
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Miscellaneous Source Material
Modernizing Campaigns
National Association of Real Estate Boards, Midwinter Meeting, 1932
National Conference on Street and Highway Safety, 1926
Press Releases, 1931
Press Releases, 1932
Program of Conference
Works Conference Delegates, 1926
Publishers and Publications
List of
Miscellaneous Pamphlets and Publications
The Octagon, agenda, 1926
The Octagon, 1931
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The Octagon, 1932
The Octagon, 1933
Recommendations for Establishment of Nat’l Housing Institute, 1933
Resolutions of Conference
Statement by Secretary Hoover to the President’s Agriculture
Committee, 1925
Telegrams
Travel Vouchers
Uniform Mortgage Act, 1926
Weights and Measures (1)
Weights and Measures (2)
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Committee Files
Blighted Areas and Slums Committee
Bibliography, October, 1931
Correspondence and Memoranda, 1931-32
Preliminary Reports (1)
Preliminary Reports (2)
Report of Committee (1)
Report of Committee (2)
Business and Housing Committee: Report
City Planning and Zoning Committee
Bibliography, 1931
Census information, 1920
City Clerks of Wisconsin, 1927
Minutes of Meetings, 1931
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Miscellaneous Articles
Plan Book for Demonstration Week, 1922
Reports
See Also: Committee Files: Types of
Dwelling Committee: Reports: Bankson
on New Rochelle, NY, 1931
Bankson on New Rochelle, NY
Committee (1)
Committee (2)
Zoning Legislation
Early Efforts, 1924-28
Enabling Acts
Laws (1)
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Laws (2)
Report on Zoning Legislation in U.S. (1)
Report on Zoning Legislation in U.S. (2)
Report on Zoning Progress in the U.S.
Survey of Zoning Laws and Ordinances in 1927
Zoning Progress in U.S. (1)
Zoning Progress in U.S. (2)
Zoning Ordinances
Height Regulations
Kansas City, Missouri
Miscellaneous Cities and Towns
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Populations 5,000 to 10,000
Populations 10,000 to 25,000
Populations 59,000 to 70,0000
Construction Committee
Report of Committee (1)
Report of Committee (2)
Design Committee: Report
Education and Service Committee: Membership List
Farm and Village Housing Committee
See Also: General File: Housing in Unincorporated Areas
Appendices to Committee Report
Appendix I: Education and Guidance
Appendix II: Farm and Village Housing
Appendix III: Design and Construction
Appendix IV: Economic Factors in Farm and
Village Home Ownership Improvement
10 Appendix V: Farm and Village Housing and
Sanitation
Appendix VI: Farmstead Planning and Beautification
Farm and Village Housing Committee
Appendix VII: Housing of Special Groups
Appendix VIII: Special Reports
Bibliographies on Housing and Landscaping, 1931
Finance Committee
Appendices to Committee Report
Appendix V: Special Types of Second Mortgage
Companies
Appendix VI: Foreclosure Laws and Provisions
Correspondence, 1931
Minutes of Meetings, 1931
Miscellaneous Drafts and Notes
Report and Recommendations of Committee
Returned Life Insurance Company Questionnaires (1)
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Returned Life Insurance Company Questionnaires (folders 2-5)
Fundamental Equipment Committee (concerns heating, lighting,
plumbing, ventilation and air conditioning)
Minutes of Meeting, 1931
Report of Committee, December 3, 1931
Subcommittee on Heating, Ventilation, and Air Conditioning
Correspondence on Home Costs, 1931
Report, October 12, 1931
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Subcommittee on Plumbing and Sanitation Report, 1931
Homemaking Committee: Bibliography
Home Furnishing and Decoration Committee Report
Home Information Centers Committee: Bibliography
See Also: Committee Files: Household Management
Committee: Appendices to Committee Report,
November, 1931: Appendix G: Home Information
Services and Centers
Home Ownership and Leasing Committee
Census Data in 1920
Meetings, 1931
Miscellaneous Articles
Scope of Work
Household Management Committee
Appendices to Committee Report, November, 1931
Appendix A: Relative Values in Household
Management
Appendix B: Budgeting for Housing and Home
Ownership
Appendix C: Purchasing Procedures
Appendix D: Scheduling Household Tasks
13 Appendix E: Substitute Services
Appendix F: Storage Spaces
Appendix G: Home Information Services and Centers
Report of Committee
Housing and the Community Committee (dealt with health,
education recreation, citizenship, industrial efficiency and
delinquency)
Fires: Summary of Factors Responsible for Spread of Fires
Since 1900
Section on Safety
Industrial Decentralization and Housing Committee
Bibliography, 1931
Report of Committee, November 10, 1931
Kitchens and Other Work Centers Committee: Report
Landscape Planning and Planting Committee: Report,
October 31, 1931
Large Scale Operations Committee Report (concerns planning,
building and management of property):
Migrant Workers
See: Committee Files: Farm and Village Housing:
Appendices to Committee Report: Appendix VII:
Housing of Special Groups
Negro Housing Committee
Report of Committee, November 17, 1931 (1)
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Report of Committee (2)
Reconditioning, Remodeling, and Modernizing Committee
Reconditioning, Remodeling, and Modernization Committee
Preliminary Reports of Committee
Renovize Philadelphia Campaign, January 20, 1933
Report of Committee (1)
Report of Committee (2)
Suggestions on Home Modernizing, January, 1932
Subdivision Layout Committee
Bibliography
Land Subdivision Survey Results
Land Value Material
Report, November 10, 1931
Taxation Committee
Assessment of Property in Washington, D.C., August 24,
1931
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Types of Dwellings Committee
Appendices to Report (A - F)
Classifications of Types of Dwellings, 1931
Correspondence, 1931
Meetings
Reports
Bankson on New Rochelle, NY, 1928
See Also: Committee Files: City Planning and Zoning
Committee: Bankson on New Rochelle, NY, 1931
Committee, October 29, 1931
16 Draft of Committee Report, August 7, 1931
Miscellaneous
Utilities for Houses Committee
Bibliography, November 23, 1931
Meeting Memoranda, 1931
Report of Committee, November 10, 1931
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Correlation Groups
Correlating Group B: Research
Appendix A: Preliminary Suggestions for Post-Conference
Researchers
Appendix B: Housing Survey Technique
Draft Memorandum on City Planning Research
Correlating Group C: Legislation and Administration
Notes and Minutes of Meetings
Report of Surveys
Correlating Group E: Organization Programs, Local and National:
Questions for Study, August 15, 1931
Correlating Group F: Technological Developments: Report