Mid Century Modern Home
Mill Valley, California
LOCATION:
Mill Valley, California
ARCHITECTS:
Campbell & Wong
OWNER:
John Garden Campbell
COST FACTS:
$5,000 (without architect's fee), in 1952. 540 square feet.
MATERIALS:
Basic structure is a series of eleven equilateral triangles of
Oregon fir, furnished pre-cut with holes already drilled to take bolts. Exterior panels are of waterproof marine
plywood secured by heavy battens. Plywood house flooring and plank porch flooring, applied to floor joists.
PLAN FACTS:
For his own week-end house (to be used for relaxation,
entertaining with ease of maintenance) John CampbelI decided to erect one of the "Leisure Houses" which he and his
partner Worley K. Wong had designed.
Available for purchase as a "build-it-your-self" structure, this prefabricated assembly unit
comes in two basic "packages": one with living room, kitchen, bath and sun deck; the other with the same space but
a bedroom added.
Mr. Campbell chose the unit with the bedroom for his week-end house. He of course added plumbing,
electricity, glass to fit within the basic shell framework; but even so the completed ready-to-be-lived-in house
cost only $5,000 in all.
ECONOMIES:
Prefabricated unit easily erected by two people, after
foundation is laid.
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