The Country House 



let us consider the accompanying site on the Maine coast as a practical example. 



This has the advantage of being just such a problem as one would be called 



upon to consider. 

 It is still an unsolved 

 problem, and the 

 reader starts with 

 practically the same 

 advantage as the 

 writer. It is not the 

 unsatisfactory ques- 

 tion of how has it 

 been done, but how 

 is it to be done ? 



There may be 

 those who will fall 

 in love with this site 

 and wish to know 

 where it is situated. 

 Forbear, gentle 

 thirster for knmvl- 

 stucco house at Glen Ridge, N. j. A weii edge, and know that 



studied example on English lines , P ... 



H.Van Buren Magonigle, architect thlS SCCrCt IS JCaiOUS- 



ly guarded. 



The site is on the shores of a bay, 

 contains about forty acres, and is about 

 one-half mile from the main highway. As 

 shown on the plan, it is irregular in shape 

 and divided into three distinct divisions a 

 second-growth wood to the north, a cleared 

 farm, and a triangular sheep pasture. 

 The second-growth, which lies on either 

 side of the private road, is mostly larch 

 and white birch, with a sprinkling of 

 spruce. The farm proper is cleared and 

 has upon it a cottage house, a barn, a shop 

 and another small building, all in fairly 

 good condition. The portion of this part 

 toward the bay is the mowing field. The 

 pasture is freely strewn with rocks (granite) 

 and has a fringe of trees along the shore, 

 mostly spruce, pine and old-growth birch. The point is fairly high on the 

 bay side, sloping back gradually to the road. The highest point on the site is 

 about midway of the rail fence between the mowing field and the pasture. To 

 the north of the farm building a small inlet runs across the private roadway. 

 This suggests much in the line of future lay-out. 



The soil is gravelly and of considerable depth, the whole front structure 



