Hammond Organ

Hammond Organ had one of their models on display at the fair, and M-102 spinet model. The ad mentions no guest organist playing it, it was probably just on display as a piece of furniture. The organ could be viewed in the House of Good Taste near the main entrance to the Fair.

HOUSE OF GOOD TASTE 

Three houses—traditional, contemporary and modern—fully furnished and provisioned down to liqueurs on the coffee table, are on exhibition in this homemakers' center. The buildings are sponsored not by one exhibitor but by scores of building, decorator and house-wares companies. Their aim is to provide visitors with a yardstick of home building and decorating standards. In addition, there is a stripped-down house that enables visitors to look into the walls and see secrets of construction that are ordinarily invisible. Admission: 50 cents. 

TRADITIONAL HOUSE. This house, of white plastic clapboard, with terrace and swimming pool, is an adaptation of a rambling New England farmhouse. It has three bedrooms and displays such features as a party room with indoor barbecue fireplace and a kitchen with a sewing nook.

CONTEMPORARY HOUSE. Sliding-glass walls and a living room skylight make this a house of light and space. Furnishings are both antique and contemporary, there is a separate family room, and in the garage are a Finnish steam bath and dressing room. Most of the rooms open onto sundecks, and the grounds have no fewer than three pools, as well as a summer house.

MODERN HOUSE. Edward Durell Stone's "inward looking" house was designed for the suburban lot, with the house enclosing the grounds to ensure privacy. A patio is in each corner, and a garden is in the center under a glass dome. The 36-foot-long living room is hung with modern American paintings on loan from museums, galleries and artists. 

(Stone was an American architect known for the formal, highly decorative buildings he designed in the 1950s and 1960s. His works include the Museum of Modern Art, in New York City. )

HIDDEN ASSETS. The innards of a house, such as wiring, plumbing and heating systems that normally stay out of sight, are on view in the open-wall structure. 

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