Art: New Kentucky Home

Centrepiece of a National Home Show which opened in Louisville last week was a low, rambling white house built inside Jefferson County Armory in five working days, complete with garden, fireplace, tangerine linoleum, taffeta bedspreads and soap in the soap dishes.

A first-night crowd of 12,000 thronged happily through this new Kentucky home. At show's end it will be torn down, erected permanently in a Louisville suburb for sale at $8,250. Designed by Treanor & Fatio, swank Manhattan architectural firm, whose house commissions normally run from $25,000 up, it was the first LIFE house...

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