APPENDIX 



TWO houses of somewhat radical type are described below in 

 response to a request reading, "From eight to ten thousand 

 statements made from actual experience in building and lay- 

 ing out country places, and a thousand or more photographs illus- 

 trating country houses and country living make helpful data, but go 

 one step farther, Mr. Author, and outline in a dozen pages a couple 

 of type houses, one for the man of moderate means and one for the 

 rnan of wealth, and do it so thoroughly that the prospective owner 

 will not expect a sow's ear to yield a silk purse. For instance, were 

 I about to build a country house and undertook to follow the myriad 

 suggestions of well-meaning friends, I might be a bankrupt before 

 it was enclosed, but, aspiring to build a feature house, with a type 

 before me illustrating details that have been actually worked out, I 

 could doubtless better outline a rough plan to submit to the architect." 



THE HOUSE FOR THE MAN OF MODERATE MEANS. 



Location preferably within a mile of the station, about an acre 

 of rich soil, thorough drainage, rising land, large trees, good neigh- 

 borhood, no near nuisances nor prospect of any, town water, electric 

 lights, sidewalks, good roads and lighted streets, are all desirable. 

 The dwelling should be placed not less than seventy-five feet from 

 the street and face south, on a lot preferably about 200 feet square, 

 with an extended view that neither tree growth nor buildings will 

 ever entirely shut out. 



House, 30 x 40, is enlarged by porch-room wings at each end, the 

 west porch connecting with an esplanade floored with cement, if 

 expense precludes the use of the more attractive terrazzo or brick, 

 and ornamented with potted plants, the east wing joining the porte 

 cochere. The house is side hilled so that portion in the rear is four 

 feet under ground, and at the sides averages about two feet under 

 ground a third of the width of the house, walls, as well as all 

 footing courses built of rough uncracked field stones, in case such 

 are on the place, or any hard stone, crude oil being mixed in the 

 cement as a damp deterrent. Basement walls and those of first 

 story are hollow brick, coated with rough cement and colored 

 to harmonize with the hand-dipped stained shingles which cover 

 upper story and roof, preferably laid on the latter with four and one- 

 half inch weatherage. The hollow tile will be interiorly treated 

 with tar and cement and air spaced, and gutters of copper and leaders 

 crimped. 



Second story, studded, boarded, shingled and back-plastered, 

 projects four inches, the under mold forming a narrow belt course. 



