American Legion Moderne Electric Home

American Legion Moderne Electric Home — Charles Rawson — Park Ridge, IL — 1929

In the summer of 1929, the Mel Tierney American Legion Post raffled a house in Park Ridge. This was the prize, a six-room art deco showcase built as an advertisement for electrified domestic life. It had appliances in every room and a floodlit landscape, mod cons we take for granted now. Sixty thousand people paid fifty cents to tour it. The winner was a 79-year-old woman from Pittsburgh.