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...suggestion of the Waterbury Republican's and American's William J. Pope, the State Legislature passed an appropriation of $74,290 to buy Brasher's collection of North American bird portraits-bigger, if not better than that of the late, great John James Fougere Audubon. Connecticut had, as yet, no museum to put them in, couldn't see its way to building one until the present munitions boom was over. Casting about for likely storage space, the State last week had received offers from the State Library, Hartford's Avery Memorial, Middletown's Wesleyan...
Nearing completion at Camden, NJ. this week is a Government housing project (for defense shipyard workers) the like of which the U.S. has never seen before. Ground for Camden's 500-family Audubon Village was broken only last February. The buildings were made by a partial prefabrication technique which enabled a crew of ten men to knock together walls and roof in three hours. But it is not only speed which makes Audubon Village unique. It is also the financial plan...
Houses at Audubon Village are neither for sale nor for rent (nor free). Instead they will be occupied and eventually paid for under a system devised by ingenious Colonel Lawrence Westbrook, special assistant in Federal Works Agency. ARCHITECTURAL FORUM, hailing the plan as the most promising housing idea in years, describes the workings in detail in its June issue...
...Audubon Village residents will make monthly payments covering maintenance, insurance, local taxes, reserves-plus interest on the money put up for the project and amortization. In the process they will build up an equity, not in their individual homes, but in the entire project. In about 25 years the Government expects to have its $1,500,000 investment back and the residents will own the entire village...
...through centralized staff and purchases), will protect them against neighborhood deterioration by insuring that no building will fall into disrepair or be replaced by a hot-dog stand. Still more hopeful is the fact that the Camden Plan is not subsidy housing. Although a small subsidy was provided at Audubon Village to make up for construction delays caused by bad weather and a strike, the plan's basic principle is for projects to pay for themselves. Thus, as applied to, it offers a way out from the discouraging trend of many previous defense housing projects, built under subsidy arrangements...