September, 19 2 0 
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A BOOKCASE should be as much a part of your house 
. as your books are a part of your life. This bookcase 
will be a beautiful part of your home today and equally as 
attractive to the next generation. Your children will grow 
up to love it, and link it with the treasures that it holds. 
There may be the books that father bought and hoped his 
children would later read, besides your own well-thumbed 
volumes of favorite nursery rhymes. 
When you plan your house, you can provide a perma¬ 
nent place for your books with Curtis Woodwork. The 
time to put in a bookcase is when your house is built. 
A real service to the prospective house builder, es¬ 
pecially to those with modest means, who have not always 
been able to gratify their good taste, goes with the use or 
Curtis Woodwork. 
Erl ton, C-816. yin eight-room house of the 
Colonial expression, designed for the Curtis Com 
Panics by Trowbridge & Ackerman, finished with 
Curtis Woodwork of architectural character. 
fhink of your 
: ooks 
when uou build 
With one door and 
a pedestal bale. 
This is bookcase C-575. You can have it, just as you 
can have china closets, mantels, sideboards, buffets, kitchen 
dressers, dining alcoves, bedroom dressing tables and tray 
cases, stairs, doors, windows, and interior trim, built into 
your house as an integral part of the house itself, a part of 
the very structure. 
This Colonial bookcase is designed to harmonize with 
all the other Colonial woodwork in a Colonial type of house. 
Curtis Woodwork is designed by Trowbridge & Acker¬ 
man, architects, of New York, who designed and planned 
a large number of houses to be built with interior and ex¬ 
terior Curtis Woodwork. 
These houses range from three to eight rooms and are 
developed in four architectural expressions — Colonial, 
English, Western, and Southern. Appropriate woodwork 
is designed for each type of house. 
Curtis Woodwork is standardized in designs and sizes 
and is produced in quantities. The cost of production is 
thus brought down, and the cost to you is accordingly lower. 
All designs of Curtis Woodwork may be seen in the 
Curtis Catalog, which your lumber dealer can show you. 
Your Curtis dealer can also obtain for you without charge 
portfolios of Better Built Homes, designed to include Curtis 
Woodwork when built. Or you can send us the coupon 
with 25 cents postage (50 cents in Canada), specifying 
which portfolio you want. “Better Built Homes,” 
Volume VI, shows exteriors, interiors, and floor plans with 
complete descriptions of 32 houses of three, four, and five 
rooms; Volume VII, of 32 houses of six, seven, and eight 
rooms. If your plans for a home are still in the dream 
stage, and you feel it is too early to talk to a lumber dealer, 
then use the coupon for securing portfolios at 2 5 cents each 
(50 cents in Canada). 
iViMiffe, c.-ur 
A charming six- 
room house of South• 
ern design with 
Curtis Woodwork of 
appropriate archi 
tectural type design¬ 
ed especially for it. 
CURTIS SERVICE BUREAU 
3091-4091 So. Second Street Clinton, Iowa 
Manufacturing and Distributing Plants at 
Oklahoma City* Okla. Detroit, Mich. Lincoln, Neb. Sioux City, Iowa 
Wausau, YVis. Topeka, Kan. Chicago, Ill. Clinton, Iowa 
Minneapolis, Minn. Dayton, Ohio 
Eastern Offices at Pittsburgh, Baltimore, Akron, and New York 
The makers of CURTIS Woodwork guarantee complete satisfaction 
to its users 
tl We’re not satisfied unless you are** 
Lnthrop, C-8I8 
This is an eight-room 
home of the English 
type which also has 
its own distinctive 
Cu rtis Wood work 
inside and out . 
WOODWORK 
“The Permanent Furniture for Your Home” 
CURTIS SERVICE BUREAU 
j 3091-4091 S. Second Street, Clinton, Iowa 
Enclosed find . cents in stamps, for which please sen<l me 
Portfolio of Better Built Homes, 
Vol. VI (3, 4, 5 room houses ) t 25c 
Portfolio of Better Built Homes, 
Vol. VII (6, 7,8 room houses), 25c. 
( Please check the one you wish) 
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