Suburban Home Grounds. 1 1 



Is the street if unaccepted as a public highway of the legal 

 width? 



What is the elevation of the district? Is it swampy or is the 

 site subject to the drainage of adjoining land? 



Are there stagnant pools in the neighborhood causing the 

 breeding of mosquitoes? 



Is the district healthy? Has it a reputation for malarial 

 infections? 



Has the site been filled with ashes and refuse making a poor 

 foundation for the house or for the treatment of the ground? 



Is there a good, pure water supply, and, if wells are to be 

 depended upon, is there any drainage from neighboring cess- 

 pools or stables which is likely to contaminate the water? 



Are there nuisances in the neighborhood such as piggeries 

 or foul smelling factories? 



If sewers are not in the vicinity, is the soil of such a char- 

 acter that proper cesspools can be built? 



Is the neighborhood of such a character that the general 

 trend of improvement will be upward? 



What is the character of the soil and subsoil? Is it adapt- 

 able for either lawns, trees, shrubs, flower gardens, vegetable 

 gardens, etc? 



Are building materials available in the vicinity? — that the 

 cost of building may not be excessive. 



Are there restrictions as to the minimum cost and character 

 of the buildings? 



In well ordered communities on tracts of land that have been 

 developed by a competent landscape architect, the location of the 

 roads and the shape of the lots are determined so as to provide 

 the best site for the house and development for each lot. A 

 restriction line or building limit is placed upon the ground 

 varying from 25 feet to 50 feet in width from the street line to 

 secure a uniform arrangement of houses. See Plates III and IV. 



On the side lines of the lot a restriction line from 10 to 25 

 feet is placed according to the size and character of the lot, so 



