The Home Electrical at the PPIE

From the General Electric Review

"The construction of this complete house within the Manufacturer's Palace is an engineering novelty which has added materially to the attractiveness of this special exhibit. The home is a California mission bungalow in design built of gray stucco roofed with red tile in the picturesque Spanish
fashion and with a long columned portico along two sides. There is also a small enclosed patio or garden in the rear. The interior arrangement provides for a large and comfortable living room, an attractive dining room with a breakfast alcove, a bedroom with a nursery and a bathroom adjoining, a sewing room, a kitchen with auxiliary refrigeration room, and laundry. In connection with the house there are also an electric garage, a workshop, and a small creamery. Every room is completely furnished and attractively decorated all in excellent taste and yet entirely within the means of an average family.



Here at the very beginning it should be said that the Home Electrical is in no sense of the word an exhibition stunt designed merely to demonstrate the wonders which electricity can be made to do in the modern home. It is not the purpose of this house to astonish the visitors or to astound them with numerous bewildering and amazing electrical performances which savor of the magical. It is in every way a modern house and every application of electricity therein is aimed to lessen the work of housekeeping and to remove the drudgery of housework. Not a single electrical convenience is shown but what would be entirely suitable for the average family and well within the means of anyone in moderate circumstances. Visitors have often remarked with surprise that the electrical equipment is so simple that anyone can operate it without any previous study or knowledge of electrical matters."