The Hammond Wood development at Wheaton, Maryland | architect: Charles M. Goodman

How to get the most house for your money is the stock- in-trade theme of developer-builders. Because the public wants more in a house than ever before, progressive builders are revising their methods to meet these demands. A significant trend is the retaining of an architect. Paul I. Burman and Paul Hammond, developers of Hammond Wood at Wheaton, Maryland, realize that a good plan is no harder to build than a poor one and it's much easier to sell. (The Wheaton group was sold out the day that the first house was finished.) Architect Charles M. Goodman planned the hilly land to best advantage, placed houses to obtain the most privacy, retained the existing trees and also arranged for a complete landscape plan to go with each of the houses in the group.

Living and dining areas borrow room from each other and the terrace. Door-high storage wall gives effect of bedroom hall while space above it seems to remain part of living room. Built on one level, this is the smallest house in the group. Where land slopes, it gains a lower story with full-height windows, fitting additional living space into the side of the hill. Plan indicates how lower story, which is sold unfinished inside, may be divided into rooms.

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source: House and Garden Magazine | august 1951