Name/Title
Muller: Your Home Magazine February 1930Entry/Object ID
2009.084.001Description
February 1930 Your Home magazine cover features a color image of the home of Walter E. and Alice M. Knowles of 11 Cape Court in MIllburn. Interior photos of the home appear in the article on pages 34-35. A 2009 tour of the house indicated that it had not changed much at all since 1930.
The Cape Court section of Millburn was constructed around 1929 and consisted of 11 Cape Cod Style houses landscaped and grouped around a private court bordering South Mountain Reservation. The development was backed by John J. Burling & Donald W. Leavens who were the creators of the Nottingham section. Mansfield & Swett were the managing agents.
Walter Enoch Knowles, Jr. (1903-1970) was an advertising salesman for Charm magazine. He was born in East Orange in 1903 and in June 1928 married the daughter of the Jeweler's National Board of Trade, Alice M. Knowles. In January 1929, they had a son, Walter E. Knowles, III and shortly thereafter purchased the newly constructed home at 11 Cape Court in Millburn.
The softcover magazine has 72 pages , wear on all page edges, much wear to the spine, and rust on the staples inside, binding the pages together. Overall soil on front and back covers and ca. seven nicks in the front cover, in a line above the chimney of the house.
Pages 16-18 feature an article by architect Bernhardt E. Muller, who built homes locally and some of the sketches may be of his local homes. The intro notes that this article is "his final article of this series" and it is titled Viewing the House as a Whole.
Page 31 features an article by architect Kenneth W. Dalzell and an unidentified Southern Colonial "residence in New Jersey."Acquisition
Accession
2009.084Source or Donor
Lynne RanieriDimensions
Height
8-1/2 inWidth
11-1/2 in
