The Country House 



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is an inoffensive and mobile animal. If it be tremendously ugly it won't explode, 

 and if your front door opens into the kitchen pantry it isn't a locomotive that 

 will not run. It is not a ship that will "turn turtle." If your roof should 



look like a number- 

 ten hat on a ten- 

 days-old puppy, or 

 an impossible rail- 

 road grade; if you 

 do have to crawl 

 on your hands and 

 knees under a roof 

 valley to get into 

 the best chamber- 

 still no catastrophe 

 will occur, except 

 perhaps a slow and 

 sure arrival at the 

 insane asylum. A 

 man was once asked 

 the question as to 

 who designed his 



house. He replied: "My wife; Mr. So- 

 and-So drew the plans." As the edifice 

 i __ _ .j was a little masterpiece throughout, 



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riu|||i|J and the wife of a very ordinary sort, it 



is readily seen at how much some people 

 rate the architect's labours. There are 

 some people of taste who are better 



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i - t I fitted to be architects than many of the 



profession, but they lack, almost always, 

 the intimate knowledge of the subiect 

 which tends to complete success. \\ c 

 frequently see and hear of houses 

 "built without an architect." We can- 

 not dispute the possibility; it is the 

 result that we question. 



Now if the client would only be 

 willing to admit that the architect is 

 master of his profession, and the 

 architect in turn be thoroughly honest 

 with the client and with himself, then 

 things might run a little smoother and 

 pleasanter than they often do, and the 

 general results would gain very con- 

 siderablv. 



Brick and stucco house at Manchester, Mass. A simple and _,. 



dignified rendering. Andrews. Jaques & Rantoul, architects I he Sensible Way tO gO about the 



