UNIV. Of CALIF. LIBf^ARY, LOS ANGBLEb 
 
 LIBRARY OF 
 
 ARCHITECTURE AND 
 
 ALLIED ARTS 
 
 Gift of 
 
 The Heirs 
 
 _ ^ of 
 
 R. Germain Hubby, A. I. A
 
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 LOW COST SUBURBAN HOMES
 
 Dwight J. Bnuiti, architect 
 
 Pointed native stone has been effectively used in this Dutch Colonial residence. For 
 other photographs see pages 76-81
 
 LOW COST SUBURBAN 
 
 HOMES 
 
 A BOOK OF SUGGESTIONS FOR THE MAN WITH 
 THE MODERATE PURSE 
 
 EDITED BY 
 
 RICHARDSON WRIGHT 
 
 Editor of House ^ Garden 
 
 Author of "Through Siberia," "The Open Door," etc. 
 
 Editor of "Inside the House of Good Taste" 
 
 NEW YORK 
 ROBERT M. McBRIDE 6s: COMPANY 
 
 1916
 
 Copyright, 1916, by 
 Robert M. McRride c^- Co. 
 
 Published April, 1916
 
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 Annex 
 
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 CONTENTS 
 
 PAGE 
 
 The Service of the Architect i 
 
 Howard Hammitt 
 
 How TO Go About Plaxxixg Your Home ii 
 
 C. E. Schermerhorn 
 
 The Cost of Different Kinds of Building 21 
 
 George Hunt Ingraham 
 
 The Promise of American House Building 31 
 
 Ralph Adams Cram 
 
 An Album of Low Cost Suburban Homes 42 
 
 Addresses of Contributing Architects 120
 
 FOREWORD 
 
 THE HOUSE NOT MADE WITH HANDS 
 
 HERE, sirs, you can read of it — the house that is made with hands. 
 For in these pages you witness the idea of a house being crystal- 
 lized into a material entity. Here is offered a choice of country 
 houses and you can learn how you and your architect can best work to- 
 gether for mutual advantage. You can see to the gardens that will surround 
 it, the hardware, the plumbing, the lighting, the closets for the wife, the 
 sturdy walls and the roof. It's an interesting process, this building a house 
 from the idea up. To read of it stimulates ; ambition is awakened. 
 
 Much the same materials are being used to-day as were used centuries 
 ago. We have improved on them ; we are making things more comfortable 
 according to our conceptions of comfort, and more sanitary and more lovely 
 to look upon, but each generation brings its own improvement in the meas- 
 ure of its added wisdom over the generation that has gone. The bathroom 
 that was a luxury of yesterday is a necessity of to-day. Yet back of all build- 
 ing and building improvement is a mightier force than that of steel and stone 
 and concrete. The house to-day is the product of ages of improvement in 
 customs. Customs make houses what they are to-day ; they are the architects 
 and masons and carpenters of the house not built with hands. 
 
 Houses, a recent author claims, were made primarily to shelter and 
 protect the child. Was it the tree-house of the tropics or cave-house of the 
 mountain dwellers or the hall of the sturdy folk of the north, for the child's 
 sake a home was devised to protect it against the heat of summer and the 
 cold of winter. Sociologists are only now awakening to the fact that the 
 love of father and mother for child antedated the love of husband and wife. 
 
 From the cave dwelling developed the hall — or cave above ground — 
 and from the hall came the modern house. Traces of the influence of the 
 cave as a model may be seen in the construction of the hall. The hall stood 
 east and west, with the door in the western end giving less access to cold 
 winds. The roof was pitched high so that the smoke could rise above the 
 eyes. The lines of the roof were irregular, so that a foe would mistake it 
 for a grass-grown mound of earth. The entrance was through the western 
 gable, whose lintel was so low and threshold so high that no enemy could 
 enter without difficulty. There was a window, too, in the center of the roof,
 
 Foreword 
 
 through which the smoke passed out, and where stood the guard in times of 
 danger. It was one big room without partitions or stories, and all the furni- 
 ture was what we call built-in. In those days the sign of a man's strength 
 was that he could tear the furniture from its fastening! A table ranged 
 down the middle of the room, wnth a bench on either side, the middle of 
 which was raised above the level of the rest and reserved for the master of 
 the hall and his wife, the distinguished guest sitting opposite. As this w^as 
 situated near the fire, it w^as also a place of great comfort. Tw^o sacred 
 things were in this house — the high posts, usually decorated wath carvings 
 of the gods, that separated the master's seat, and the cord that closed the 
 roof window in hours of danger. It takes no great stretch of the imagina- 
 tion to build up from these rudimentary things our modern master's suite 
 in the house, and the custom of locking up the house at night ! 
 
 The desire for privacy — an acquired custom — brought about the di- 
 vision of the hall into rooms. The women's seat on the long bench marked 
 the place where a partition w^as erected, and that space further subdivided 
 into sleeping boxes or " lock-beds " — little more than closets into which 
 the sleeper locked himself. Another partition or wall was erected parallel 
 to the west gable, making a space that was divided into four rooms, two 
 above and tw^o below. One became an entry, one a storeroom, another a 
 sleeping place. Thus the sleeping places went froiu the ground floor to 
 their present positions upstairs. 
 
 When the life of the family became too complex for the rooms inside 
 the house, other buildings were erected close by. Thus there was the guest 
 house — still used to-day on some large estates ; the seething-house for 
 cooking, which can be seen on Southern plantations, an improvement on 
 which is being advocated in a community kitchen and bakery of the town of 
 to-morrow ; bath houses, constructed near springs, to wdiich water w^as con- 
 ducted in stone pipes. In addition there w^ere barns, byres, stables, sheep- 
 folds and pigsties. 
 
 The fireplace was built to conserve the fire when wood began to grow 
 scarce, one fire a day being built, and the hearth left to radiate heat the re- 
 mainder of the time. From this grew the stove. Toward it was moved the 
 seat of honor — for even as to-day, honor in the home spelled comfort. 
 
 With the subdivision of the one large room came the necessity for 
 smaller movable furniture, the type of to-day. Ornaments grew from the 
 bow and arrow and spear and the trophies of the chase to things of utility 
 and decoration. Business customs required a knowledge of the time, and 
 thus came into use the hour-glass, and then the clock. 
 
 Although in such limited space only a few of the simplest facts of the 
 development of the house can be touched upon, it is evident what romance 
 lies behind us and how custom has been fashioning through numberless cen-
 
 Foreword 
 
 turies the house not made with hands. But the work has not ceased, and, as 
 customs change, so will the house. One can only conjecture what the house 
 of to-morrow will be. We have not yet completely solved the problem of 
 dust, nor do many houses have elevators that eliminate the wearying climb 
 of the stairs. Democratic customs becoming more widespread have made 
 the sen-ant question threaten the feasibility of a separate kitchen for each 
 house. Heating facilities have also not reached the state of blissful perfec- 
 tion. The apartment house has done much to eradicate some inefficient and 
 uneconomical evils, but it has lost, in the process, much of the old charm of 
 the separate house. Nor can the time ever come when men will be content 
 to have their home lives completely regulated by machinery or guided by com- 
 munity regulations. 
 
 The house not made with hands is not alone the product of people's 
 customs, but of an owner's individuality. Each man builds his own house 
 unseen, a house of sturdy walls not made of brick, roofed in with things 
 other than slate or tin, windows fashioned of more than wood or metal 
 and glass, and rooms made habitable with furniture no artist can create. 
 For to each house made with hands is one made not with hands. You can 
 see it — if you have the vision of the intangible. 
 
 This volume, then, is for the man with that vision and with the mod- 
 erate purse who wants a comfortable house in which he can carry out his own 
 notions of good taste in decoration and sanity in living. In gathering the 
 illustrations, an effort was made to present examples of houses that cost 
 in the neighborhood of $10,000 and under. These figures may be mislead- 
 ing. Alany factors can cause such totals to fluctuate. Thus an item of 
 appreciable value is architectural detail. If you like a type of house shown 
 here, but would not care for it in its entirety, the dift'erence would reduce 
 the cost appreciably. Another factor is that the costs of materials and labor 
 differ with dift'erent localities. The house that costs $10,000 in New Eng- 
 land will cost correspondingly less in the South. The greatest factor of all 
 in reducing the cost of a house, however, is simplicity. Insist on simple 
 direct plans that will serve the needs of a small family. The interior 
 decoration and the planting of the grounds can be worked up as the building 
 nears completion or as the purse permits. Starting with simplicity any 
 amount of elaboration may be developed. It is indicative of the trend of 
 American life that an inherent desire to live simply has brought about a 
 demand for simple homey houses, such as showm in this book. The low cost 
 suburban home is a symbol of present-day America. It is a house made 
 with hands fitting to enshrine the house not made with hands. 
 
 R. W.
 
 LOW COST SUBURBAN HOMES 
 
 THE SERVICE OF THE ARCHITECT 
 
 THERE seems to be a vague idea in the minds of many people as 
 to the real functions of the architect, and exactly what service he 
 renders in return for his fee. What he does in connection with the 
 designing of a building is generally understood. It is common knowledge 
 that in his preparation for the profession he trains his artistic talent to a 
 high appreciation of form and proportion, makes an exhaustive study of 
 
 A Colonial house of this sort is siiitahle to most of our muUeni suliuri)s. Situation and 
 house alike simulate the appearance of the Colonial village 
 
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 3 
 
 the architecture of the ages and masters the technique of mechanical draw- 
 ing; that it is his duty to translate into the design of the building his best 
 appreciation of the individuality of the owner and cause it to represent 
 truly in form the purpose for which it is to be used. But few people with- 
 out building experience realize the nature and extent of the work aside 
 from the matter of design that the architect undertakes in connection 
 with the administration and supervision of the building operation and how 
 it is possible for him to effect an actual saving of his client's funds if his 
 work in this department is successful. 
 
 In his initial interviews with prospective clients he often encounters 
 
 The house as the owner generally gets it from the architect's iiaiids ; planting to be 
 finished according to personal tastes 
 
 most interesting situations on this account and is obliged to correct many 
 strange misconceptions in regard to his work and methods. For example, 
 the proprietor of a public garage in a thriving New York suburb who is 
 contemplating an addition to his building to double its capacity says, " The 
 new building will be nothing more than four walls and a roof, and I would 
 hardly need an architect for that." A young matron about to establish her 
 homestead says, " I could have my house built frmn this ])lan I cut out 
 of the magazine. It is almost exactly what I want and I would not bother 
 With an architect ; but I want some changes in the rooms and I do not 
 quite like the exterior." A leading Fifth Avenue tailor who has decided 
 to build a home in a suburb says, " T know all about building. Xo con-
 
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 Ayi)uir Liiibmy 11, d)\liiU\t 
 
 Stucco is being used more and more for various types of homes. Here its surface is 
 made more interesting by judicious use of lattice 
 
 tractor can get the better of me. All I want is a set of plans and specifica- 
 tions and I can take care of the rest. Now show me the best house I can 
 build for $12,000." Cases like these come every day to the architect deal- 
 ing with prospective builders, and their frequence would seem to justify 
 a brief explanation of architectural service in accordance with customary 
 practise. 
 
 In the ordinary job there are three distinct divisions of the architect's 
 work. These are: (i) the design, (2) the working drawings, specifica- 
 tions and details, and (3) the administration and supervision of construc- 
 tion. 
 
 The design is embodied in what are usually termed "preliminary sketches,'' 
 which show the general plan of the interior and the form of the exterior. 
 These are drawn to scale, but are not made in sufficient detail and with 
 the accuracy necessary in actual working drawings. In these sketches the 
 architect works out in definite form his solution of the problem based on 
 the suggestions and requirements of the client. They constitute the medium 
 through which a definite understanding is obtained of the size, design and 
 cost of the proposed building. Here his artistic talent is brought into 
 play and his ability as a designer is determined. 
 
 Before attem])ting this work he studies all those characteristics of his 
 client that he can discover having a bearing on the client's home life. In 
 this he must consider the whole family as a unit rather than the individual.
 
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 if the house is to be equally successful for all. lu the preliminary inter- 
 views he is ever alert for indications of taste and preference for special 
 features. He will go over carefully with the client plans of a number of 
 houses he has built and discuss the relative cost and desirability of various 
 building materials. He is glad to see photographs of other houses that 
 strike the client's fancy, as these assist him in determining just what is 
 desired. A study of the proposed site is also necessary in order to design 
 the building to harmonize with its surroundings. 
 
 H the preliminar)^ sketches as submitted are not entirely satisfactory 
 they are changed or re-drawn until they represent exactly what the client 
 wants and are acceptable in every respect. When these sketches are ap- 
 proved the first step is completed. 
 
 The next step is to prepare the working drawings, or plans, and write 
 the specifications. The plans show the form and size of every part of the 
 building. They require very careful and accurate work and are usually 
 made by draftsmen under the direct supervision of the architect. Every 
 detail is worked out precisely to scale and leaves no feature to the dis- 
 cretion of a workman. All questions of engineering, such as bearing 
 strength of beams and columns, the relation between roof pitch and the 
 roofing materials to be used, proper layout of heating plant, plumbing, 
 lighting and structural ventilation, all these problems must be considered and 
 wiselv cared for. 
 
 Hays and Hoadlcy, architects 
 
 The use of clapboard here follows the old precedent. Clapboards are especially fitted 
 for Colonial designs such as this
 
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 The specifications designate the exact kind and quahty of every material 
 to be used and cover all details relative to the method of construction and 
 progress of the work. They constitute the most important part of the con- 
 tract with the builder. The judgment and experience of the architect 
 is tested to the fullest extent in writing the specifications. In this alone 
 he can often save the client many times the amount of his fee. The most 
 appropriate material must be selected in each case, not so good as to cause 
 needless extravagance nor so poor as to bring after regrets that too great 
 
 This adaptation of the hah'-timbered English cottage apphed to an American suburb, 
 shows in its lack of planting the necessity for vines and shrubbery around such a 
 type of house. The English style of house requires privacy. 
 
 economy was exercised. The specifications must be complete to the last 
 detail and cover every feature of the work, for two important reasons. 
 The first is that the builder is thus enabled to figure very precisely the 
 actual cost of the work. Nothing is left to his judgment or imagination 
 and he is not obliged to allovv- a margin for contingencies. He can, there- 
 fore, estimate closely and make the lowest possible bid for the work. The 
 second reason is that complete specifications which anticipate and fully 
 cover every feature of the construction work entirely eliminate all extra 
 charges. This enables the owner to place a definite limit on the cost, plan 
 up to this limit and be assured that the amount of the contractor's bid will 
 cover his entire expenditure. To accomplish this recjuires most pains-
 
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 Loiv Cost Suburban Homes 
 
 J. Lovell Little, Jr. 
 
 This suburban residence shows the adaptability of fireproof construction to houses 
 somewhat along the English stjde 
 
 taking work on the part of the architect, but the result is sure to be of 
 financial benefit to the client and save him much annoyance. 
 
 With the plans and specifications completed the architect takes up the 
 third feature of his work, the administration and supervision of construc- 
 tion. He proceeds to obtain from builders bids for the work. He sup- 
 plies blue prints of the plans and copies of the specifications for this pur- 
 pose and his oftice is used as headquarters. His judgment and experience 
 are again of value to the client in selecting the contractor to whom the 
 work is to be entrusted. The integrity, financial responsibility, methods, 
 promptness, efficiency and general reputation of the various bidders are 
 known to the architect and his advice in this matter is sure to be of value. 
 It is frequently wise to give the job on a higher bid than the lowest when 
 the qualifications of the bidders are considered. 
 
 \Mien the successful bidder is determined the architect acts as counsel 
 for the owner and draws up all contracts between tlie owner and the 
 Ijuilder. He is familiar with all points of law that apply to such contracts 
 and no further legal advice is necessary for the owner to enjoy full pro- 
 tection of his interests. 
 
 Before excavation is begun it is customary for the architect to stake out 
 the exact site of the building, taking advantage of the most favorable situa- 
 tion, witli full consideration of the natural grades, so that best landscape 
 efifect will be secured and the least possible amount of special grading will 
 be necessary. Tn country and suburban residence work this is usually a
 
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 problem of considerable importance and one in wbich the experience and 
 technical knowledge of the architect should always be consulted. 
 
 During the progress of construction th.e architect or his expert superin- 
 tendent visits the job from time to time to see that all materials used are 
 of the quality specified and every part is properly constructed. As the 
 contract with the Ixiilder provides that no part of the work \\\\\ be paid for 
 until the architect has certified that it is O. K. it will be seen that the 
 architect's judgment is final and his authority absolute. Since his own 
 reputation as well as the interests of the client is at stake he will not 
 hesitate to reject any work that is not fully up to standard. 
 
 The advantage of this system for the protection of the client will be at 
 once apparent. The builder must not only produce work that will satisfy 
 his own conscience but every part must be finished up to a standard that 
 will be satisfactory to the architect, who has full technical knowledge as 
 to what it should be and also a double incentive to reject it if it is inferior 
 in any respect. 
 
 Howard Ham mitt. 
 
 Frank A. Bourne, architect 
 
 The sweep of the roof gives this small stucco farmhouse a distingush- 
 ing mark of indivichiality
 
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 L. H. Blcy, arclulcct 
 
 A house designed along simple lines, the broad sweep of the stained shingle roof being 
 especially in keeping with the attractive character of the surroundings 
 
 The screened porches add materially to 
 the living space on the first floor 
 
 The stairs are admirably planned to en- 
 croach but little on the room space
 
 HOW TO GO ABOUT PLANNING 
 YOUR HO M E 
 
 THERE are no hard-and-fast rules to govern the planning of a 
 house ; personal habits and ideas are all-important factors ; what 
 might be inadequate for one, might be perfectly satisfactory to 
 to another. In your contemplated house you likely have pondered over 
 and considered that certain requirements are essential. Try to formulate 
 and express these ideas in such a manner as to obtain an intelligent compre- 
 
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 jood example of a " large-small " house with three bedrooms and a batii, having a 
 center hall, a pantry available to hall and dining-room, and a wing containing 
 kitchen and pantry. All bedrooms are convenient to the hall, and there is a room 
 for use as either a study or a dressing-room. The rear chimney could be elim- 
 inated if a gas range were used in lieu of the coal range, hot water coming from 
 a generator located in basement. 
 
 hension of how they will fit together ; in other words "live in the plan" before 
 it is caused to exist in material. 
 
 With simple lines, as suggested in the accompanying cuts, sketch out your 
 ideal plan, correcting it until it typifies every required convenience adapted 
 to every-day use for all those who have anything to do with the house, so 
 that owners, guests, servants and trades-people shall find what they want 
 without too many steps, trouble or conflict in the working of general house- 
 
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 Low Cost Suburban Homes 
 
 PLANS OF TWO BEDROO^I HOUSES 
 
 (i) One chimney for heater, fireplace and range; bathroom over kitchen affording 
 plumbing economy 
 
 (2) Narrow house, with pantry and a rear kitchen 
 
 (3) One chimney for two fireplaces, range and heater, second-floor sleeping porch 
 
 (4) Wide house, with sleeping porch, available to both second-floor bedrooms 
 
 (5) Extreme hall space economy, also a one-chimney type 
 
 (6) Stair hall and bathroom located for economical plumbing. 
 
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 (i) A one-chimney plan, rear pantry and bathroom over kitchen 
 
 (2) Front and side porches, living-room across house, pantry and rear ktichen 
 
 (3) A narrow front, with vestibule entrance, laundry adjoining k-tichen, second floor 
 
 has one private and one conunon bathroom, also a front dressing-room 
 
 (4) Stair hall, one-chimney feature and incorporates a back staircase 
 
 (5) Pantry between stair hall and kitchen, separate stairs to third floor 
 
 (6) Hall space economy and all appointments direct and compact.
 
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 13 
 
 hold machinery. Study over these plans ; various features are typified and 
 can readily be reasoned out, thus avoiding the impossible and impractical. 
 Consider the diverse points between which the most traveling is done ; bring 
 them together without conflicting, so that you get directness, with each room 
 in natural relation to the other, with the object of avoiding passing through 
 one room to reach another. Provide for direct but independent means of 
 communication between kitchen and front door ; if possible the pantry or a 
 lobby should intervene, in order to effect privacy and the prevention of 
 kitchen odors permeating the house. 
 
 Avoid irregularities in floor levels, the confusion as to the " hand " of 
 
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 A typical example of a small, one-chimney, four-bedroom house with bath. It provides 
 a front porch with side terraces, stair hall, large living-room with fireplace in an 
 ingle nook. The kitchen is isolated from the house proper by means of two doors, 
 thus also permitting the owner to go to cellar without going through kitchen. 
 The want of a pantry backstairs and a laundry is to be noted, but the generous- 
 sized bedrooms, with closet space and admirable main stair location, is considered 
 a compensation. 
 
 doors when hung (that is, whether they should open right or left to avoid 
 interfering with closet doors or projections), introduction of windows in 
 staircases, any chimney not being perpendicularly continuous from its foun- 
 dation and inconsistent in its location to provide for heater, range and 
 fireplace flues. 
 
 Place the main stairway in the most advantageous position, consider its 
 accessibility, its ventilation-affording possibilities, the head room under the 
 floor construction, provisions for a turning space on landings, also easy step 
 risers and generous treads. 
 
 Express your desire for an outside cellarway, the rear or other porch, the 
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 side or so located as to eliminate the necessity for a journev with dripping 
 ice throngh the kitchen or other apartment. 
 
 Plan to be orderly in arrangement, consider convenience of, position for, 
 and light on sink, range and laundry tubs. Locate your kitchen or other 
 dresser, cold room, grocery closet, your exterior wash-paves and hydrants. 
 
 The importance of the veranda or porch should not be lost sight of ; it 
 should be of a generous width and judiciously roofed so as not to darken, 
 too much, the rooms upon which it encroaches, as it is easier to shut out 
 the light than to let it in. 
 
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 Many square feet of house area can be saved by means of a plan having the staircase 
 in a semi-center hall ; causing independent backstairs to be immediately available 
 from the service portion of the house. This type of plan has many other eco- 
 nomical features, bathroom over pantry and in close proximity to hot-water 
 source, permanent refrigerator location opening on a rear porch, outside cellar- 
 way, a sewing nook in second floor, hall and bedrooms of generous proportions 
 and very accessible to the hall. 
 
 Consider exposure to sun or light, direction of prevailing breezes and the 
 general outlook or prospect from the house ; the type of artificial light and 
 heating, keeping in mind location and height of outlets and radiators for 
 etl'ectiveness and furnishing. Realize that plumbing economy is dependent 
 on the close proximity and directness of supply and soil pipes, therefore 
 endeavor to group fixtures on each floor, as near overhead as possible. 
 
 Endeavor to avoid breaks or offsets in wall and ceiling surfaces, crannies, 
 niches and nooks ; either deliberately convert them into closets or promptly 
 reconstruct your plan study. Make a serious efifort to keep to main or 
 so-called " bearing " partitions for the various floors over each other, even to 
 and through the top floor or loft, to act as roof supports and stabilize 
 the house. 
 
 When the bodv of a house is being planned for a specific exterior outline, 
 it is good practise to extend a wing to accommodate the first floor service 
 requirements, such as pantry, kitchen, laundry and rear stairs and perhaps
 
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 servants' quarters in the second tloor, but isolated from the main portion of 
 the house by means of a passage door from rear hall. It is important to 
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 (2) Introduces a library, with small hall separating kitchen from living-rooms, the 
 
 bath located for convenient plumbing, the dressing-room a desirable feature 
 
 (3) Large living-room, hall space economy, a sleeping porch available from botli 
 
 front bedrooms 
 
 (4) A returned porch, stair hall and a back staircase 
 
 (5) P>ont and side porches, pantry separating kitchen from hall and dining-room, 
 
 a private bath accessible from two bedrooms 
 
 (6) Hall with fireplace in an " ingle nook," a lil)rary, backstairs, small second floor 
 
 hall with all rooms instantly available. 
 
 Now comes a need to think out the location of the house heater, whether 
 hot air, steam, vacuum or hot water. The coal bins, a jelly closet, provision 
 room, wood storage, location for vacuum cleaning apparatus, an individual 
 lighting plant of acetylene, gas or electricity, must be considered. Keep in
 
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 17 
 
 mind the need and location for outbuildings, the garden, gateways, walks, 
 drives, terraces and hedges or fences with relation to existing streets and 
 adjoining properties. 
 
 PLANS OF BUNGALOWS 
 
 (i) Front porch, large living-room, two bedrooms with bath; (2) one bedroom, 
 pantry and large living-room; (3) one-chimnej' feature, three bedrooms and 
 bathroom off of an isolated hall; (4) two bedrooms separated by the bathroom, 
 also the one-chimney feature; (5) two bedrooms, the living-room a combination 
 dining-room; (6) pantry separating dining-room, two bedrooms, with bathroom 
 directly available ; (7) center kitchen with side porch, pantry, three bedrooms, bath. 
 stairs to cellar; (8) corner porch, stairs to attic and basement, two bedrooms and 
 bath ; (9) returned porch, three bedrooms and bath ; ( 10) wide living-room, hall to 
 two bedrooms and bath, stairs to cellar; (11) wide type with front dining-room and 
 two bedrooms separated by bathroom; (12) vestibule entrance, three bedrooms 
 and bath. 
 
 Give close and serious application along these suggested lines and you will 
 be enabled to scheme out a plan which should show no effort to make itself 
 interesting when developed by the architect. But always keep in mind your 
 family needs and peculiar requirements ; for instance, what you intend to do
 
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 in the way of entertaining, your chief desiderata in the way of closet space, 
 built-in conveniences, etc. 
 
 The difference between the attractive house and the house that is dis- 
 pleasing comes in the variation of its shape, form, or outline, all dependent 
 on its plan arrangement ; many of the annoyances that attend house planning 
 and building would be avoided if the knowledge acquired during the process 
 had been possessed in the beginning. The plan is nothing if not compact ; 
 its cff'ectiveness is dependent largely upon its consistency with requirements 
 
 Caretto and Forster, archilccls 
 
 The three mediums used in this liuuse— brick, stucco and half -timber— give it abundant 
 interest. The rolling roof lines have added variety 
 
 of directness, with the axis admirably precise; it should be developed and 
 wrought with such care that, when constructed, its occupants may enjoy 
 to the utmost its advantages and domestic atmospiicre. 
 
 After your typical plan has been evolved in this manner you can fit pieces 
 of paper, cut to a scale representing the actual size of your furniture, and in 
 reality furnish each room in your house-to-be ; note the space between the 
 various pieces, so that the working facilities of each room can be realized 
 as ample and practical. In this way you can get an idea of how your house 
 will appear when you are once in it.
 
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 19 
 
 If the reader bears in mind that not only are extra angles nnpleasant in a 
 house, but that they add to the cost and that as regards wall space the more 
 nearly a house approximates a square or rectangle and does away with 
 exterior angles that his house will be more economical. 
 
 You should now be prepared with a plan study expressing all desires, 
 fortified with notes on the site for house, its environment, required appoint- 
 ments, character of materials of construction and finish so as to enable your 
 selected architect to develop the exterior, modifying the plan requirements 
 to the design. Now comes the preparing of practical working drawings, 
 details and specifications, in which the material and construction will be 
 intelligently specified, thus enabling and ensuring the receipt of competitive 
 estimates from general contractors, all figuring on a standard basis. 
 
 Under no circumstances should a man of any other vocation be his own 
 architect ; there are too many pitfalls and thousands of costly examples, also 
 sad experiences, which the layman has suffered ; expensive changes and 
 extras avoided will be more costly than the fee of a professional adviser. 
 
 Study the plans illustrated ; they will not only bring out the desirable points 
 of planning but will give new ideas of plan variation. 
 
 C. E. ScriERMERIIORX. 
 
 /. Lovcll Little, Jr., iircln:cct 
 
 Roomy, comfortalile. yet moderate in cost, this stucco 
 house shows the advantage of Iniihling the proper 
 type of house for the setting
 
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 THE COST OF DIFFERENT KINDS 
 OF BUILDING 
 
 THERE was a time in this big, new country of ours when the forests 
 were a bugbear to the scattered inhabitants and a great hindrance 
 to the cultivation of the soil. The cry was, " Cut the trees down 
 and burn them up to get them out of the way as soon as possible." In the 
 country districts of to-day there is the same disregard of the forests, and 
 the government has had much dif^culty in arousing any sentiment for the 
 conservation of our timber. At that time lumber was very cheap, and 
 
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 Plans of the house shown opposite indicate the simplicity of interior arrangement 
 which made the house a success 
 
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 houses could be built very quickly with little expense. They were scattered, 
 and there was less danger from fire. If a house burned down, one had 
 merely to step into one's back yard for new material. To-day, with all the 
 changed conditions, lumber is high, and we are slowly learning to conserve 
 our forests for use wdiere no other material will answer, and to look for a 
 safer and more permanent material for exterior construction. We are fast 
 becoming an old world and must adopt the customs of the old worlds. 
 There, the more permanent materials have been long in use, and there it has 
 been often found that a well-constructed tile roof is in perfect condition 
 after three hundred years, when the wooden shell underneath is crumbling 
 away. Our white pine trees, once so numerous, are now few, and white pine 
 lumber is very much increased in cost. Fortunately to take its place other 
 
 The first floor plan of house No. 2 (see page 24) is more elaborate than that of 
 house No. I, and its contents is more by 50,000 cubic feet 
 
 materials are at hand. Bricks are easily made and Portland cement is far 
 cheaper than it used to be, so that now, when a man wants to build a house 
 for himself, let him first choose an architect who understands the relative 
 cost of materials, and who will plan a simple, dignified house, with few 
 angles, that will be of the least expense to take care of as the years go by, 
 and one that will not be a menace, but rather a permanent, artistic addition 
 to his surroundings. If such buildings are in favor, our travelers on their 
 return from Europe will not feel that many of our city districts are in com- 
 parison dilapidated or unsightly. 
 
 Simplicity in plan (that is, a house of oblong dimensions without too many 
 angles and corners) not only gives a more artistic and dignified result, but 
 at the same time simplifies the cost, and a house so constructed in more 
 permanent materials, as against a more complicated design in wood, would 
 give the balance in favor of the simpler and more permanent construction. 
 
 The first thing a house builder should do is to select a good architect — 
 one w-ho is familiar with the better and more permanent types of construc- 
 tion — and not stint him too much on the cost of the exterior of the building.
 
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 23 
 
 It would be better to give up some elaborate interior effect or mahogany 
 finish for a more permanent exterior. Once have a good shell on the outside 
 walls and what is saved on repairs can be put aside for the expense of making 
 over the room later on, or for more elaborate decoration of the interior. 
 
 There are various types of good wall construction that a house builder 
 should consider, namely : 
 
 ( 1 ) Brick — a good red water-struck or the so-called tapestry bricks. A 
 brick house for its most artistic results should always verge on the red 
 shades, the darker the better, and never on the yellows. White or light 
 joints and wide joints give more character to a red brick structure. 
 
 (2) A frame house with brick veneer makes a cheaper substitute for 
 brick, but only bas one merit — that it is better than either clapboards or 
 shingles, both in qualities of fire resistance and of permanence. 
 
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 The second floor plan of house No. 2, showing its larger scale, 
 much greater than house No. i 
 
 Yet its cost was not 
 
 (3) Fireproof terra cotta blocks, of which there are several on the market, 
 finished on the outside with cement stucco, give a very permanent and 
 artistic building. The stucco should never be the natural cement color, but 
 either white cement, light grays, or light yellows. 
 
 (4) A cheaper and good effect may be obtained with wood construction 
 and wire lathing and stucco, but the advantage is very little in its favor when 
 one considers durability and fireproof qualities. 
 
 The roofs should be preferably tile construction or slate. On the sim- 
 plicity of the roof depends also the economy of construction as well as the 
 dignity of appearance. 
 
 To illustrate the above points more clearly, three houses which were 
 actually built and whose plans and exteriors are here given were taken and 
 the costs estimated, exclusive of heating, plumbing, electric work, interior 
 decorations, and lighting fixtures, because the interior work is subject to a 
 wide variation of cost according to the design and materials used, kind of 
 heating, and number of plumbing fixtures.
 
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 Of these three houses, Putnam & Cox were the architects of num])er one, 
 George Hunt Ingraham of number two, and James Purdon of numl)cr three. 
 
 House number one is built of terra cotta blocks stuccoed. House number 
 two is built of wood frame, wire lathed and stuccoed. House number three 
 is built of brick. 
 
 Table Number I gives the cost of wood construction. 
 
 TABLE I 
 
 Wire lath Cypress siding Clapboards Shingles 
 
 and stucco (painted white) (painted white) (stained) 
 
 No. I $ S.ico.oo $ 7,800.00 $ 7,800.00 $ 7,875.00 
 
 No. 2 16,970.00 16,400.00 16,500.00 16,200.00 
 
 No. 3 19.685.co 19,625.00 19,625.00 19,625.00 
 
 The cost per cubic foot on the above figures : 
 
 No. I, 34,089 cu. ft., 23c. 23c. 23c. 23c. 
 
 No. 2, 84,837 cu. ft., 20c. igc. 19c. igc. 
 
 No. 3, 72,380 cu. ft., 27c. 27c. 27c. 27c. 
 
 Table Number H gives the cost if built of brick or terra cotta blocks 
 stuccoed. 
 
 TABLE II 
 
 Brick Stucco on Tile 
 
 No. I $ 8,820.00 $ 8,580.00 
 
 No. 2 17,125.00 17,465.00 
 
 No. 3 21,780.00 20,900.00 
 
 The cost per cubic foot on the above figures : 
 
 No. I, 34.089 cu. ft 26c. 25c. 
 
 No. 2, 84,837 cu. ft 20c. 20I/2C. 
 
 No. 3, 72,380 cu. ft 30c. 29c. 
 
 The per cent, increase in cost of brick construction over wood and over 
 wire lath stuccoed is, respectively, as follows : 
 
 No. I 12.7170 8.89% 
 
 No. 2 4-63% .91% 
 
 No. 3 10.987^ io.647r 
 
 The per cent, increase in cost of terra cotta blocks stuccoed over wood and 
 over wire lath and stucco is, respectively, as follows : 
 
 No. I 9-65% 5-937c 
 
 No. 2 6.72% 2.92% 
 
 No. 3 6.501^ 6.17% 
 
 The types of wall construction for the three houses are shown above in 
 diagrams. 
 
 Now let us consider the insurance rates on the dififerent t\pes of con- 
 struction given by the insurance companies. These are shown by Table HI.
 
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 TABLE III 
 
 Cost 
 Number i — for 5 Years 
 
 Wood construction (wire lathed and stuccoed).... 75c. per 100 
 
 Wood construction (siding, clapboards, shingles)... 75e. per 100 
 
 Brick 50c. per 100 
 
 Terra cotta blocks stuccoed 50c. per 100 
 
 Number 2 — 
 
 Wood construction (wire, lathed and stuccoed).... 75c. per 100 
 
 Wood construction (siding, clapboards, shingles)... 75c. per 100 
 
 Brick 50C. per 100 
 
 Terra cotta blocks stuccoed 50c. per 100 
 
 for 
 
 Cost 
 
 15 Years 
 
 $182.25 
 
 175-00 
 
 132.50 
 
 128.70 
 
 375-82 
 371-25 
 256.87 
 261.97 
 
 James Ftirdon, architect 
 
 House No. 3 is of brick construction built so as to produce the best fabric effect 
 
 Number 3 — 
 
 Wood construction (wire lathed and stuccoed).... 75c. per ico 442.91 
 
 Wood construction (siding, clapboards, shingles). .. . 75c. per 100 441.56 
 
 Brick 50C. per 100 326.70 
 
 Terra cotta blocks stuccoed 50c. jjor 100 3i3-50 
 
 The repairs on the various types should also be considered in estimating 
 the cost. It is allowed that the clapboard finished house would need painting 
 every three years, after the first three years, besides general repairs to outside 
 woodwork. Of course, where cypress shingles are used and where some of 
 the prepared stains are employed, the longevity of the woodwork is somewhat 
 e.xtendcd. The replacing of shingle roofs has not been considered in
 
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 making out Table I\'. which is given to show all other repairs that are 
 ordinarily to be considered. 
 
 TABLE IV 
 
 Average Cost per 
 
 Year for Total Cost 
 
 Number i — Painting and Repairs for 15 Years 
 
 Wood (wire lathed and stuccoed) $ 25.00* $ 375.00* 
 
 Wood (siding, clapboards, shingles) 750O 1,125.00 
 
 Brick 25.00* 37500* 
 
 Terra cotta blocks stuccoed 25.00* 3750o* 
 
 Number 2 — 
 
 Wood (wire lathed and stuccoed) 35.00* 525.00* 
 
 Wood (siding, clapboards, -hingles I 100.00 T.500.00 
 
 Brick 35 co^ 
 
 Terra cotta blocks stuccoed 35-CO* 
 
 Number 3 — 
 
 Wood (wire lathed and stuccoed ) 35-0O* 
 
 Wood (siding, clapboards, shingles) 100,00 
 
 Brick 35-00* 
 
 Terra cotta blocks stuccoed 35-0O* 
 
 The plans of house 
 No. 3 show 
 a straightfor- 
 ward arrange- 
 ment of rooms 
 like Xo. 2, 
 but somewhat 
 simpler 
 
 525.00* 
 525.00* 
 
 525.00* 
 1,500.00 
 525.00* 
 525.00* 
 
 * These figures are for painting and repairs on exterior woodwork only. Xo attempt 
 has been made to give the cost for upkeep of a wire lath and stucco wall. The efficiency 
 of this type of construction, as is generally recognized, is dependent on the style of 
 house, its location and exposure, quality of workmanship, quality of materials used, 
 etc. But is no exaggeration to say that in the matter of durability alone it will not 
 compare with a wall built of brick or one built of terra- cotta blocks and stucco, on 
 either of which types the cost of upkeep would be ver>- little, not only for 15 years but 
 for a ver\- much longer period.
 
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 The comparative costs after fifteen years' occupancy are : 
 
 TABLE V 
 
 Wood (Siding, Clapl)oards, Shingles) — 
 
 Number i Number 2 Number 3 
 
 Original cost $7,800.00 $16,400.00 $19,625.00 
 
 Repairs 1. 125.00 1,500.00 1,500.00 
 
 Insurance 17500 371-25 44io6 
 
 Totals $9,100.00 $18,271.25 $21,566.56 
 
 Wood (Wire Lathed and Stuccoed) — 
 
 Original cost $8,100.00 $16,970.00 $19,685.00 
 
 Repairs .375-00 525.00 52500 
 
 Lisurance 182.25 375-82 442.91 
 
 Totals $8,657.25 $17,870.82 $20,652.91 
 
 Five per cent, interest on difference in orig- 
 inal cost over wood construction 225.00 427-50 45-00 
 
 Total $8,882.25 $18,298.32 $20,697-91 
 
 Brick Construction — 
 
 Original cost $8,820.00 $17,125.00 $21,780.00 
 
 Repairs 375-0O 52500 525.00 
 
 Lisurance 132.50 256.87 326.70 
 
 Total $9,327.50 $17,906.87 $22,631.70 
 
 Five per cent, interest on difference in orig- 
 inal cost over wood construction 765.00 543-75 1,616.25 
 
 Total $10,092.50 $18,45.0.62 $24,247.95 
 
 Terra Cotta Blocks Stuccoed — 
 
 Original cost $8,580.00 $17,465.00 $20,900.00 
 
 Repairs 375-00 525-00 525.00 
 
 Lisurance 128.70 261.97 313-50 
 
 Total $9,083.70 $18,251.97 $21,738.50 
 
 Five per cent, interest on difference in orig- 
 inal cost over wood construction 585.00 798.75 956.25 
 
 Total $9,668.70 $19,050.72 $22,694.75 
 
 It can be readily seen from these figures that the more permanent building 
 is the more economical in the end. The main object of this article is to 
 make the prospective housebuilder feel that he owes it to himself, and also 
 
 to the community in which he lives, to build the outside of his dwelling of as 
 
 l)ermanent a character as possible, and also to make it a credit to his 
 neighborhood. 
 
 Let us hoj^e that the i)lea for more permanent construction has not been 
 made in vain. 
 
 There is still a word to be said in regard to variation in Imilding cost.
 
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 2g 
 
 Beside the plan, the location influences this materially. In some districts 
 labor is high, and building costs consequently high. Transportation figures 
 in also : the cost of carriage into some localities makes it prohibitive to use 
 certain foreign building materials. The safest rule is that one of common 
 sense, to use native materials. This is not only economy, but it is generally 
 the most satisfactory esthetically. The reason figures are misleading in the 
 building magazines is due to these ditTerences in construction cost owing to 
 localities. A short time ago a magazine made a canvass of the architects 
 all over the country and got figures for the construction of a small suburban 
 house. The plans, bill of materials and specification of this house were 
 sent to architects all over the country. The following variations are inter- 
 esting to study in this connection. In Xew York City and vicinity, where 
 the building trades are most strongly organized, the cost was $4,300; in 
 Philadelphia suburbs it was from ten to fifteen per cent, cheaper ; Maine. 
 $3,400; Southern Xew England, a little in excess of this; the Middle South. 
 Kentucky, [Maryland, etc.. $3,000; Chicago, $3,800; the ^^liddle Western 
 States, such as Ohio. ^Michigan and Iowa, $2,550 to $4,000; Pacific Coast 
 Northwest, $2,000 to $3,200; Colorado, average $3,100 to $3,200: Southwest 
 (Arizona, Xew ^Mexico). $2,800 to $3,000. Though these figures do not 
 represent the most careful analysis of building conditions, they are a fair 
 indication of the geographical factor in cost. 
 
 George Htxt Ixr.:iAH.\M. 
 
 Mann & MacSeille, architects 
 
 An English half-timbered cottage type that fits its setting well. Com- 
 pare this with the unfinished development around the house shown 
 on page 7
 
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 Low Cost Suburban Homes 
 
 Diihring, Okie and Zicglcr, architects 
 
 Among the finest architectural developments in America has been the treatment of 
 native stone in houses of the Pennsylvania Colonial and farmhouse types. This 
 detailed view shows the stone rough-pointed ami wliitewasjicd
 
 THE PROMISE OF AMERICAN HOUSE 
 
 BUILDING 
 
 LET r.s adopt the words " hou>e building '' in place of the pretentious 
 and 19th Century " domestic architecture."" and so begin forthwith 
 by saying that modern house building in America occupies a posi- 
 tion of singular and admirable distinction. The statement is quite safe 
 and boasts the added virtue of complete truth. There may be those that find 
 our official architecture artificial and verbose, our churches eclectic, reaction- 
 ary and archeological, our schools either illiterate or damned by intensive 
 (and ofifensive) efficiency, our municipal monsters, such as shops and hotels 
 and office buildings, menaced on the one hand by the Scylla of anarchic in- 
 dividualism plus an intemperate logic, on the other by the Charvbdis of 
 inherited but unaccommodating " orders "' — I do not know. But if there 
 are such, the picking and stealing fingers of criticism are withheld from the 
 whole category of house building. 
 
 Charles Bartun Keen, arcltitccl 
 
 A typical, comfcrtable, commodious tNpe of suburban house, l)uilt sul)staiitially, of good 
 
 lines and lasting satisfaction 
 
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 Whatever we have done or left undone, we have in thirty years redeemed 
 the architectural art of the householder from the pit it had digged for itself 
 in the early and awful Eighties, and we now can point with pride to the 
 houses of good citizens, from Portland in the East to Portland in the West, 
 and from St. Paul to New Orleans. Not to all of them, of course, at least 
 not in pride, but to so many, and so widely dispersed, and by so many hands 
 and in so many so-called styles, that they mark the caste, establish the type 
 and the argument, and rebuke the scoffer, the pessimist and the prophet. 
 
 It is rather a fine thing, when you come to think of it, that owner and 
 
 Frank Lio\d U'riglit. architect 
 
 The low stretch of the Western plains has been symbolized in the parallel lines of 
 this type of architecture, a characteristic of the work of Frank Lloyd Wright 
 
 architect should have l^een aljle to work together as they have in this direc- 
 tion : a great thing that here at least their work should l^e so uniformly good. 
 Charity and art begin at home, or nowhere ; the church, the school and the 
 dwelling represent three of the stable and admirable elements in a life long 
 since horribly messed up with all manner of inferior things that have as- 
 sumed and achieved an indefensible priority, and here, at least, architecture 
 is dealing with real things. Neither owner nor architect could have wrought 
 the great transformation alone. That the former should have desired, and 
 the latter have oft'ered, the increasingly good things that crowd the landscape 
 and the professional magazines, is a fact very heartening at a time when
 
 Lozv Cost Suburban Homes 
 
 33 
 
 the world is hungrily in need of such encouragement. The house building 
 of the last twenty years means this in any case : that there is a fine and vital 
 and noble impulse in society that may, in the end, mean its salvation. 
 
 Another point that seems to me of especial value is that this good work is 
 not only confined to " high life "' owners and headline architects; it is quite 
 as conspicuous in the little houses of the less opulent and ostentatious, 
 and at the hands of architects whose fame is being slowly and modestly 
 built up on the basis of their good work, rather than vice versa. Indeed, it 
 would be interesting, profitable and none too difficult to defend the thesis 
 that the less costly the house and the less prominent the architect, the better 
 
 •-"■ ''•.-•tr - 
 
 Aymar Embury 11, architect 
 
 The Colonial style demands the right environment ; otherwise it is unsightly. This 
 type of the " Northern Tradition " adapted to modern needs has the requisite 
 rural setting. Careful shrubbery planting further enhances its beauty 
 
 it is as art. ]\Ioney and fame are the most highly prized weapons of the 
 devil and many a man rises from a good cottage to a bad i)alace: many 
 an architect slips from the hard basis of good art to the ease and 
 plenty of a bad fashion. Art never begins at the tO]) and filters down — at 
 least, this is true of the art that lasts. It begins amongst the peoi)le them- 
 selves and they, for their own better expression, nurture the great geniuses 
 that finally lift art to its highest levels : men like Phidias, Dante, Leonardo, 
 Robert de Coucy, Bach, Browning. We, of late, have thought otherwise 
 and have acted accordingly, but the best promises lie not in the intensive
 
 Lozv Cost Suburban Homes 
 
 Aymar J:inhuiy II. ar.hitcc. 
 
 Apart from it. general lines the architectural success of a Colonial house depends 
 ' upo^the authenticity and placing of its details. In this doorway a balance .s 
 established, the details are simple and ornate
 
 Loiv Cost Suburban Homes 35 
 
 products of a highly speciahzed and Brahministic education, but rather in 
 such instances as this where the foundations are being laid surely and 
 true. 
 
 Of course there is in it all nothing approaching unity of stylistic method 
 or local and racial and contemporary originality; this is as it should be. 
 Styles that are united, original and unusual, come of a society of like nature. 
 This quality we lack at present in any faintest degree ; we have neither 
 racial nor social nor philosophical nor religious unity. When we have this, 
 as we may gain it through the present sifting of souls and of peoples like 
 wheat, we can hope for a consistent artistic expression. At present the best 
 we can hope for is increasing good taste, honesty, sincerity and a fine inter- 
 pretation of our chosen styles. It is precisely these things we are getting in 
 abundant measure. 
 
 \\'hen the last tradition of a popular and instinctive art vanished, about 
 1825, we forthwith began our search for old styles to conquer; we found 
 plenty of them and annexed them pitilessly, quite without understanding 
 what any one of them meant, (jreek, Gothic, Italian, French Empire, 
 Renaissance, English, Colonial, all were successively taken in hand, with 
 astonishing and even terrifying results, one being indubitably the production, 
 in the space of seventy-five years, of the most awful architecture recorded in 
 history. Xow we deal with the same styles, with others added, but mark 
 the amazing diflference : where once was a childish playing with ill-remem- 
 bered or worse-copied details applied to impossible forms constructed from 
 novel and supposititious materials, is now a keen and sympathetic laying hold 
 of the very heart of things, an actual thinking in the terms of the style and 
 after the very fashion of its creators. 
 
 Take, for example, our own Colonial, a fine style, logical, self-respecting. 
 full of instinctive refinement. When I was a draughtsman in my first (and 
 only) office in the early Eighties, it was just coming into vogue, and the 
 crimes committed in its name were as numerous as they were ingenious. 
 Colonial stands for simplicity of form and perfect proportion, but at first 
 there was nothing of this : we took our fantastical aggregations of blocks 
 and gables and round bay windows and contentedly applied our miscellaneous 
 detail of broken pediments, twisted balusters, Palladian windows and what- 
 not, and prided ourselves on our patriotic return to a " national style." Of 
 course, we then painted it yellow and white, with green blinds, and the 
 task was triumphantly accomplished. When at last a realization of the 
 singular wickedness of our acts came to us, we conscientiously turned to a 
 careful study of the existing monuments, and this was carried to such lengths 
 that we went through a period of pure archeology when the careless addi- 
 tion of Georgian mouldings from Pennsylvania to a structure couched gen-
 
 36 Lozv Cost Suburban Homes 
 
 erally in the terms of Salem Colonial was a faux pas so atrocious as to be 
 almost enough to keep a man out of the A. I. A. Pedantic as it was, how- 
 ever, it killed the silly stuff of the first kind and actually made possible the 
 third — the present — when study and general culture have produced a 
 working in Colonial, by innumerable architects, that is sensitive and intimate. 
 The archaic quality has disappeared, the houses are no longer either bur- 
 lesques or restorations, and new conditions, new ways, are met just as the 
 old builders would have met them, simply, delicately, in good taste — gentle- 
 men always. 
 
 And, as there was great Colonial and Georgian work (the two were quite 
 different, as Mr. Eberlein has shown in his book, " The Architecture of 
 Colonial America") in many sections of the country — New England, the 
 Hudson River, Pennsylvania, \'irginia — each differentiating itself delicately 
 from the others, so in the development of the honorable Colonial of to-day 
 each mode is used as a starting point and by men in almost every part of 
 America. From the beginning there is a divergence, both from the name 
 itself and away from all the others : this is as it should be. What has been 
 accomplished by the Philadelphia architects on the basis of their own wonder- 
 ful old stone-work, by far the most notable contribution to general house 
 building in America, and one of the most distinguished achievements in 
 modern architecture — is typical of what has been done elsewhere. 
 
 So has come a very beautiful new thing, not an imitation, nor an affecta- 
 tion, but a fine recognition of fine things and fine motives. Papier mache 
 ornaments and stock columns and balusters have gone the way of all flesh ; 
 in their place has arisen a reserved and instinctive feeling for those fine, 
 wide proportions, those elements of grave and well-bred simplicity that 
 mean Colonial and are emphasized by the delicate and aft'ectionate detail 
 we can still cull from the few relics which are left us along the Atlantic sea- 
 board. 
 
 Equally with Colonial (or, properly speaking. Georgian) the English mode 
 of building has transformed itself. From the time of the " Downing's 
 Cottages," sporadic attempts had been made at a revival of English i6th 
 Century work ; at first in the quaintly fallacious wood of the " Carpenter's 
 Gothic " era, later in the Eighties with a slight increase in consistency. Not 
 that the moral reform was brilliant or far-reaching: if the " Strawberry Hill " 
 fancy for translating the 14th and 15th Century stone into the accommo- 
 dating and economical medium of painted plank was abandoned for a 
 specious " half-timber " style, the gain in structural veracity was not great 
 for the construction was still of studds, lath, plaster and sheathing, the 
 plausible " timbers " being no more than inch plank spiked on the outer 
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 of form also much remained to be desired ; instead of a return to the grave 
 simplicity and the delicate relations of the cottages and farmsteads and 
 manors of Kent and Surrey and Wilts, the tendency seemed to be to get as 
 near as possible to the self-indulgent luxury of Compton W'inyates, even 
 if the subject matter were a gardener's cottage or a bank clerk's " suburban 
 residence." There was too much " architecture," too passionate a follow- 
 ing of the specious and pictorial splendors of an ingenious and aml)itious 
 scene-painter; all outside show, in fact, with little of sense or sinceritv behind. 
 
 An out-growtli of the plains type shown on page 2>- is the work of younger architects 
 who work successfully in simple materials used in parallel lines 
 
 Note the change here in the last ten years. Of course we have perfect 
 masterpieces in the shape of great creations like Trowbridge and Ackerman's 
 Pratt house at Glen Cove, or ]\Ir. Pope's Duncan house at Newport; master- 
 pieces worthy to stand with the best work of the i6th Century in England. 
 On the other hand we find in the small and modest residences a progressive 
 getting away from the over-loaded luxuriance and a return to simple, 
 collocjuial modes and manners that are Cjuite beyond all praise. 
 
 Or take another instance, far afield this time, the style that is growing 
 up amongst city houses and the villas of the more exclusive summer resorts, 
 the style that comes in some sort of fashion out of France. There, in its 
 original habitat, it is poor enough in all conscience, for whatever the l-Vench 
 may do in formal architecture, their domestic work is generally inexcusable.
 
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 Here, at the hands of both the older and the younger men who have come 
 from the Beaux-Arts, the style they have chosen is transformed into a 
 thing of beauty and sincerity, and it is easy enough to find all over the land 
 examples of actually exquisite design that expresses not only the fastidious 
 taste — both natural and acquired — of the architect, but the best that is in 
 American society. 
 
 The same is true of the pure and very Italian classic, of which AIcKim, 
 
 A suburban residence showing the use of native stone pointed clean. This and the 
 picture on page 30 show the two styles of Pennsylvania stone work 
 
 Alead and White were the revivers. Whether this follows along their own 
 scholarly and delicate lines, or adapts itself to the more American modes of 
 Mr. Piatt, it is all of the best. 
 
 As for the Pacific Coast, here we find several follovvings, as diverse as 
 may be, but all handled with rare vitality. There is the white marble 
 palace with its Roman colonnades and patios and terraced gardens : the 
 " mission " style, released at last from its artificial alliance with the spirit 
 that lay behind the trade furniture of the same ilk and nomenclature, now 
 become generic, genuine, convincing. There is also that very baffling and 
 engaging sort of thing that came from (iod knows where and naturalized 
 in time and space along the seaslopes of the Pacific, where with its low, 
 flat roofs, its wide. Thibetan eaves, its curious combinations of horizontals
 
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 and verticals, its ingenious and unexpected materials, it stinnilates and 
 satisfies as do few other forms of modern domestic building. 
 
 And so we might go on almost indefinitely, finding in every region, at the 
 hands of every architect, some new and generally beautiful way of treating 
 and developing an old and beautiful style, from the glorified Pennsylvania 
 Dutch of Duhring, Okie & Ziegler to Mr. Frank Lloyd Wright. Whatever 
 and whoever it is, it is filled with a new freshness and fineness, it begins at 
 the right place and develops after the right fashion, with self-restraint, 
 consistency and good taste. America may fail in its State Capitols, in its 
 cathedrals, in its universities, if you like, but for the housing of its own 
 people (if they do not live in flats), it succeeds as no other nation or race 
 is succeeding to-day. 
 
 And }et : there seem to me to be two points wherein further improvement 
 is possible, and I am not sure that the owner has not quite as much to do 
 in bringing about these as the architect himself. The first is this: Through 
 our increased knowledge, our improved training, our widening view of the 
 world, we are becoming too able and too assured. There is too much 
 " architecture "' in our building, and we are in danger of failing to see the 
 forest because there are so many trees. Of course, this is all natural 
 enough : the owner has the thrifty sense of getting as much good art for his 
 money as his architect can give him, and the architect ( if he is not too old 
 and tired) honestly wishes to make each work a masterpiece, an epitome 
 of all he knows — and knows he knows. Individualism is rampant, of 
 course, and the communal sense non-existent, and the result is apt to be 
 what would be obtained (and is obtained) l)y a landscape gardener who 
 designed a park but cared only for specimen trees. Economy in the use of 
 art is a great virtue; the chateaux of the Loire and Touraine, the piled- 
 up wonders of Elizabethan palaces, are the sort of thing that can be done 
 successfully once or twice, but not constantly. 
 
 Opulence has been the ruin of the world now falling in fragments around 
 us. The new spirit that will take control after the shattering readjustment 
 is accomplished will be a dift'erent thing altogether, and if the world is to 
 continue at all, it will be along lines of simplicity. 
 
 In the new era a little art will go a long way, and successfully, just because 
 it will be so good. The white villas of Italy and Spain, the gray little farms 
 of England and Xormandy, the ascetic mansions of Xew England and 
 Pennsylvania, and Virginia, give the key. For with them form, texture, 
 proportion, workmanshi}) are everything: ornament and detail only the 
 accent. In much of our best work there is enough intelligent and admirable 
 design to fit out a community : this is im])rovident and it is also ineft'ective. 
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 expression of the needs of a given case, all in terms of good composition 
 and good workmanship, adding as little detail, as little ornament as possible, 
 one of the two reqnisites still absent from onr honse building will have been 
 attained. 
 
 If all the architects in America should l)ind themselves bv a " gentle- 
 man's agreement " not to use a moulding or an inch of ornamentation for 
 the space of a year it would be the greatest thing that ever happened to 
 architecture. 
 
 There would be adequate compensation for such laudable self-denial, and 
 this is the second point I am eager to urge. Those who build houses in the 
 country ha\e. it would seem, learned all but one thing: the fundamental 
 importance of good workmanship and its actual value as art. However 
 tndy fine and admirable are our houses, big and little, in point of design, 
 when they are intimately examined many show the cloven hoof of poor work- 
 manship. 
 
 This almost fatal aspect shows itself in many ways : in false construction, 
 in woodwork (and sometimes carving, horribilc dictii) raw from the machine, 
 with mouldings bradded in rather than run on the wood itself, and dressed 
 up with filler and shellac : in machine-tooled stone and " a good job of 
 plaster; "' in trick bricks and clean cut slates and scientific tiles; in " quarry- 
 faced " and " mill stock," and paint and wall paper and varnish : more than 
 all, perhaps, in a slavish adherence to the formulas and the stereotyped 
 methods of construction developed during the dark years between 1820 and 
 1880, whereby architecture and craftsmanship were reduced to the ignomini- 
 ous category of a science. 
 
 As a result of certain economic and industrial phenomena, craftsmanship 
 has completely and entirely disappeared from the world, and the present 
 tendency is rather towards keeping it in its century-long seclusions than 
 toward bringing it back. And yet, half the virtue of every great art at 
 every time has lain in craftsmanship, as nmch in painting and architecture 
 as in poetry, sculpture and music. So a knowledge of past arts, and a 
 sympathy with them such as we have now, is only half the battle if we can- 
 not gain true craftsmanship as well — and a half-won battle differs little from 
 a defeat, if it ends there. Georgian mantels are good things, but not if their 
 Grinling-Gibbons carving is moulded in putty, cast in compo and stuck on 
 with glue : a coltered ceiling of the Early Renaissance is a good thing, but not 
 if it is made of papier mache, or " stamped steel," and grained to look like 
 wood; a Tudor wainscot is a good thing, but not if its lesion panels are run 
 through a planing mill and its mouldings fitted in and fixed with brads. 
 ^'ou may go even further and say that wood is good if it isn't machine 
 ])lancd, brick if it isn't pressed, stone if it isn't mechanically cut. Apart
 
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 from the roughest work, such as could be produced by slave-laborers, nothing 
 architectural is good if it is done by machinery: it is the hand of man that 
 counts. 
 
 For this reason the most scholarly design fails in execution, and until 
 we get back " the touch of a vanished hand," to our wood and stone and 
 metal, our taste and erudition will avail little. 
 
 Can we do this? Probably not, at least for a time, because true crafts- 
 manship cannot exist between capitalism on the one hand and unionism on 
 the other ; still we can always fall back on self-denial, eliminating the art 
 that suffers most through modern methods. 
 
 Some of us of late have been experimenting on these lines, trying to find 
 how much we can omit rather than how much we can obtain, and it is 
 surprising how good and convincing and even beautiful are the results. 
 ^Mouldings and ornaments of all kinds go by the board and, reduced to the 
 raw materials of wood, brick, plaster and stone, it is amazing how much can 
 be accomplished with a little honesty to smooth the way. Working thus 
 becomes another thing : the least promising workman has in him a latent 
 feeling for good craftsmanship, and if he can be made to see that he, by his 
 handiwork, is responsible for half the artistic result, he rises to his oppor- 
 tunity, union or no union, and suddenly becomes a craftsman and not a 
 niachine. Ralph Ad.vms Cram. 
 
 In the hilly regions uf California, the chalet has been successlully adapted. It is for- 
 eign to the history of the country — which was Spanish — but has proven natural 
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 A hollow tile stucco house of distinctly livable possibilities, providing plenty of window 
 light, plenty of porch room and a walled garden enclosing the service department 
 
 A. Raymond Ellis, architect 
 
 Indirect entrance is effected through the 
 vestibule to the larger jiall, thereby 
 assuring privacy for the family. 
 With a wing devoted to service, that 
 department is properly isolated 
 
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 of closets, and thorough ventilation 
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 The Dutch Colonial gambrel roof type of house stands preeminent for suburban life. 
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 The house is designed for a small family — a beginning Imme that newlyweds can 
 start in. It provides a house-depth living-room and a generous dining-room, both 
 containing fireplaces. Upstairs the bedrooms are arranged around a central hall 
 
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 Davis, McGrath & Keisslmg, architects 
 
 Because of its simplicity, this small stucco house represents no great outlay although 
 providing a comfortable interior and being decorative in its general exterior lines. 
 The tile roof, the well detailed entrance, the flower boxes, and the balanced side 
 porches add interest. This type could be reproduced in an all-wood exterior of wide 
 lapped siding or shingles painted wliite, or by the use of brick with white trim- 
 mings and shutters. 
 
 A sun-room and porch off the living-room give that room added size for summer 
 use. The location of the dining-room in the rear is pleasing. Upstairs are two 
 baths, five chambers and a sleeping porcli. 
 
 A SQUARE COLONIAL ADAPTATION OF SIMPLE LINES
 
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 Davis, McGrath & Keissling, architects 
 
 A small balanced type of white stucco house, Colonial by suggestion in tlie detail 
 of its entrance, side porch, chimneys, form of roof and dormers. It is essentially 
 a house calling for white painted interior woodwork. This design would be 
 equally consistent in red brick laid Flemish bond in white mortar, with white 
 shutters, porches, eaves and window trim, or by substituting white shingles laid 
 lo-inch to the weather, and green blinds. 
 
 Balancing the sun room on the Ijottom floor is an extension on the other side of the 
 house containing the pantries. Upstairs, the adequate attic space lends itself to an 
 increased number of bedrooms. 
 
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 Economy is attained by so placing one chimney that it serves a fireplace, the stove 
 
 and the furnace 
 
 VIEWS OF A COMMODIOUS BUXGALOW COSTING $4,500 
 
 This bungalow was built in northern New Jersey in a remote country district where 
 there are no sewers, water supply or gas. Electricity was available, and that gave 
 all the requirements for lighting. A pressure tank installed in the cellar and pro- 
 vided with an electric pump supplied the water. 
 
 The plans called for a large living-room, dining-room, porch for summer or winter 
 use, three bedrooms and bath, and a maid's room — all on the one floor. There is 
 an abundance of closet space. 
 
 Foundations were of concrete, the wooden frames later being used for framing and 
 sheathing the building. 
 
 The roof is shingled with red cedar shingles. North Carolina comb-grained pme — 
 the cheapest floor that can be laid — was used throughout. The trim of the entire 
 house, as well as the doors, is of cypress. Plasterboard was used for the walls and 
 later papered, with satisfactory results.
 
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 The house shows the possibility of making the most of a narrow lot 
 
 The small conservatory off the living-room and an al)undance of porch space are 
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 All irregular, simple, white shingle type of house with green roof and blinds to match 
 
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 A DUTCH COLOXIAL HOUSE IN NORTH CAROLINA
 
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 The hallway is distinctly CoJi.r.i.il in uxatment — white woodwork and mahogany 
 
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 The same Colonial character is shown in the hedrooms with their four posters, open 
 
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 This formal balanced type of white stucco house with light brown tile roof and shut- 
 ters to match in color, savors of an Italian feeling by its simple mass, plain, low 
 roof and the arch motif. The type admits of stained interior woodwork and 
 substantial hangings and furniture. 
 
 
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 A balanced arrangement of rooms both upstairs and down, and the general openness 
 of the plan make it desirable for the small family 
 
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 The roof lines of this half-timbered cottage type have striking individuality. In 
 fact the construction of the entire house — its successful combination of stucco, 
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 The foundations and chimney are of rough-dressed sandstone, the exteriors red cedar 
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 An enclosed porch doubles the living-room space. Hall, dining-room and living- 
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 The open stairs and hallway make a light airy spot on the second floor. \ littU 
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 A library back of the central hall is reserved for the family circle. The kitchen is 
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 The solarium of the second floor rear can readily be converted into a bedroom. Tiie 
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 Although the hall on the first floor is large, it does not waste space. The living and 
 dining-rooms are well proportioned. The side porch is wide and has a cement floor 
 and a fireplace 
 
 A HOUSE TO SUIT THE AVERAGE FAMILY 
 
 Among the other specifications are the following: House faces north and a vestibule 
 is arranged for winter use only. Refrigerator in pantry designed so that it may be 
 filled from outside. Kitchen isolated from balance of house and has cross ventila- 
 tion Private bath for main chamber has a shower bath in marble stall instead 
 of a tub \ closet with dust proof wardrobe and window provided also. Room 
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 four bedrooms, three of which are double; one bath and ample closet space. A 
 unique feature is the bathhouse under the landing of the stairs. The kitchen yard 
 is cement and a lattice screens it from the living porch 
 
 A SUCCESSFUL SEASHORE COTTAGE COSTING $4,618 
 
 The lot is 40' wide and 125' deep. Although raised only 2' above ground, the house 
 is not damp owing to the good draught beneath the bottom floor and the double 
 thicknesses of building paper. The porch is on the ocean side. The cost of the 
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 On entering the hall to the right we have the living-room, well placed and accessible 
 to both the hall and dining-room and entrances to both the front and rear porches 
 
 The second Hour shows four well-arranged bedrooms witii ample closet room, a store- 
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 The porch on one side and terrace on the other make the house especially adaptable 
 
 for summer occupancy 
 
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 Upstairs are four chambers and bath witii sleeping porch. Servants" rooms are m 
 
 the attic 
 
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 Kenneth H'. Dalsell, arelntcet 
 
 A $5,000 HOUSE FOR A SMALL FAMILY 
 
 The walls are red cedar shingles painted white. Comb-grained pine has been used for 
 flooring. Woodwork on the first floor is stained brown and painted white upstairs 
 
 A breakfast porch and a large pantry 
 afiford accommodations not usually 
 found in such a small house 
 
 Irregularities here and there where tlie 
 roof breaks the wall, give interest to 
 the bedrooms
 
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 Lev-'is Colt Albro, architect 
 
 Its lines are those of an English cottage. The building is frame-finished with stucco 
 on wire lath. The roof shingles are stained red 
 
 The plan of the first floor shows a one-room depth. It is simple and open in design 
 
 with a central hallway 
 
 AN ENGLISH COTT.\GE IN NEW JERSEY COSTING $5463
 
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 The porch can lie 
 enclosed in 
 winter, making 
 another living- 
 room. The ves- 
 tibule and hall 
 arrangement is 
 interesting 
 
 The second floor 
 plan does not 
 allow for much 
 head room, hut 
 the roof gives 
 to each room 
 a striking in- 
 dividuality 
 
 A SMALL BRICK HOUSE OF IXDIVIDUALITY
 
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 Closet room both upstairs and down is generously planned. On the first rioor an 
 interesting feature is the sun parlor and outside fireplace 
 
 A NEW ENGLAND SUBURBAN RESIDENCE
 
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 KE.W HAVEN, CONN . 
 
 On the first floor the service quarters occupy one entire side, the same arrangement 
 olitaining upstairs where two halls make this privacy possible 
 
 AN ENGLISH COUXTRY HOUSE IN NEW HAVEN, CONNECTICUT
 
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 The living-room and corner porch have been so placed as to command the view. A 
 breakfast room with a fireplace is an attractive feature of the first floor. The 
 second floor provides for four chambers and a bath. 
 
 A SUBURBAN RESIDENCE OF THE MIDDLE WEST
 
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 The living and dining-rooms face the side yard, the sun porch and breakfast room 
 look over a formal garden. It is an arrangement that gives abundant light and a 
 pleasant outlook 
 
 The house has been built for a small family. Ilenco the two chambers. As it is 
 situated in California, the sleeping balcony serves as a third bedroom
 
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 The hallway is furnished in a quiet key with aialu.gany cuttings and trnn. 
 are covered with a neutral tone paper 
 
 The walls
 
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 Murphy cr Uana, architects 
 
 A HOUSE OF SPANISH 
 PRECEDENTS 
 
 
 Both in its exterior line and 
 its interior arrangement 
 this house is unusually 
 attractive. The stucco 
 walls make an excellent 
 background for the plant- 
 ing. Commodious kitchen 
 quarters are a commend- 
 able feature
 
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 Martin & Kiltalrick. aychitccts 
 
 Throuo-h the unusual cambrel roof treatment this little house possesses a striking 
 individuality, a departure from the Dutch Colonial precedents. Stone whitewashed 
 is used on the first story and shirgles above 
 
 Hall space has been reduced to a minimum on both floors. One large chimney serves 
 the heating and cooking agents. The arrangement is convenient, home-like and 
 pleasant 
 
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 The plans are such as can be reduced for a house of smaller proportions. They are 
 simple and yet interesting, especially in the treatment of the stairs 
 
 In reducing these plans one of the chambers could be eliminated, leaving the front 
 
 bedrooms with the best view 
 
 A SEASHORE HOUSE WITH SBIPLE PLANS
 
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 Kcllv & Graves, architects 
 
 The lines of an English cottage are here reproduced in a New England home througli 
 the medium of wood construction, the exterior being white painted shingles 
 
 The arrangement of the service department is especially notewortliy. an arrangement 
 embracing every equipment conducive to the expeditious handling of household 
 activities 
 
 Storage room is provided under the roof so tbat none of the bedrooms are cut. A 
 rear stairway leads to a bedroom that can he used citlicr by family or servant, 
 entrance being effected through a closet
 
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 A study of the plans and elevations of this small house of English type shows what 
 modern construction can do to make an artistic house of moderate cost
 
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 STUCCO AND THATCH 
 IN A SOUTHERN 
 SUBURBAN HOME 
 
 By laying the roof shingles 
 thatch-wise and leaving 
 the stucco rough finished, 
 the similitude of cottage 
 construction has been giv- 
 en this house. Its lines 
 and plans could both be 
 reproduced on a smaller 
 scale 
 
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 Carctto & F'i---'tcr, architects 
 
 A SMALL ROOMY HOUSE FOR 
 THE SUBURBS 
 
 The combination of red brick, in white 
 bond, vari-colored slate and white 
 wood trim make this an interesting 
 house to look at. A study of its plans 
 prove the interior to be no less attrac- 
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 Every inch of space is used so that the living quarters will both appear and be large. 
 This is done without sacrificing comfort 
 
 The sleeping alcove, an adjunct tnat miglit well be included in all su1)urban houses, 
 
 serves for an extra bedroom
 
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 A lieavy curtain separates dressing-room and alcove so that the sleeping quarters can 
 always be cool without chilling the rest of the room 
 
 The color scheme of thb living-room is nuilherry draperies and rug, copper and green 
 fireplace and putty colored paper
 
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 The dining-room and den open directly from the In uig-ru. .ui, hnt can be easily 
 
 separated by draperies 
 
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 The dining-room ,> tini^hcd m .iKer ;4ray oak with the cretonne curtain motif 
 repeated upon the buffet doors
 
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 For the beiietit of those readers who desire to comnuuiioate with the archi- 
 tects of the houses shown on these pages, the following list of names and 
 addresses is appended : 
 
 Albro, Lewis Colt, 2 \\'est 47th Street, Xew York City. 
 
 Haker, Xorman Kaird. 16 Ingram Street, Forest Hills, L. I. 
 
 Hates & How, 542 Fifth Avenue, Xew York City. 
 
 Haum, Dwight J., Waldo Ave., Riverdale, X\ Y. 
 
 Caretto & Forster, 30 East 42nd Street, X'^ew York City. 
 
 Cram, Ralph Adams, 15 Beacon Street, Boston, Mass. 
 
 Davis, McGrath & Keissling, Flatiron r>ldg., Xew York City. 
 
 Druckenmiller, Stackhouse & Williams, Land Title Bldg., Phila., Pa. 
 
 Duhring, Okie & Ziegler, 1218 Chestnut Street, Philadelphia, Pa. 
 
 Ellis, A. Raymond, 36 Pearl Street, Hartford, Conn. 
 
 Embury H, Aymar, 132 Madison Avenue, Xew York City. 
 
 Faulkner, Albert, 320 East 67th Street, X'^ew York City. 
 
 Hammit, Howard, 103 Park Avenue, Xew A'ork City. 
 
 Hanker & Cairns, Scimeter Bldg., Memphis, Tenn. 
 
 Hatton, Horace T., Cutler Bldg., Rochester, X. Y. 
 
 Hunt, Myron, & Elmer Grey, Wright & Callender Bldg., Los Angeles, Calif. 
 
 Ingraham, George Hunt, 2A Park Street, Boston, Mass. 
 
 Keen, Charles Barton, Bailey Building, Philadelphia, Pa. 
 
 Kelley & Graves, 57 Mt. Vernon Street, Boston, Mass. 
 
 Lee, W. Duncan, Travelers Bldg., Richmond, Virginia. 
 
 Little, J. Lovell, Jr., 15 Beacon Street, Boston, Mass. 
 
 Martin & Kirkpatrick, 130 S. 15th Street, Philadelphia, Pa. 
 
 Miller, Claude, Denville, X. J. 
 
 Murphy & Dana, 331 Madison Ave., New York City. 
 
 Putnam & Cox, 91 Spooner Road, Chestnut Hill, Boston, Mass. 
 
 Purdon, James, 8 Beacon Street, Boston, Mass. 
 
 Phillips, Watson K., 430 Walnut Street, Philadelphia, Pa. 
 
 Schermerhorn, C. E., 430 Walnut Street, Philadelphia, Pa. 
 
 Wright, Frank Lloyd, 220 So. Michigan Avenue, Chicago, 111.
 
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