European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - May 29, 1948, Darmstadt, Hesse In Miami Florida Fohn f. Keife has Only hangar Home in existence. By flt on grounds of Miami aviation country club. Mod Viii i inn i nil in cd ii it photographs by Irwin Tress 1np in Miami Florida unique House with its own hangar sets the pattern for new Home design in solving their air plane housing problem John f. Keefe and his family hit on an idea that May set the pattern for a new form of architecture in the future. Keefe a joint manager of the Miami aviation. Country club has put up his Home right on the club grounds Complete with built in hangar. The hangar shelters a four seater Beechraft plane. Made to fit the architectural pattern of the House the hangar is built in Between the laundry and a screened porch. It looks like an overgrown garage. Its Over grown driveway is a 3500-foot Concrete runway cutting through the Back Yard. Now when the Keenes have any place to go All they have to do is drag the old Craft out and take wings. They think nothing of flipping Over to new Orleans to fetch their College student daughter sue out for lunch or hopping seventy Miles off for a picnic. Friends of the family who have air planes have also adopted the idea weekend the Keefe House hold basks in the Florida Sun left with visitors from Atlanta Boston or Cleveland who casually Park their planes in the Yard when there s no space left in the hangar. Keefe and he partner Richard Flynn who is also a Strong proponent of the new wrinkle in architecture plan to turn the idea into a commercial proposition buld other hangar Hornes on 450-acre tracts for air minded plane owners. M weekend May 29, he a Kkt
