POSITION AND PLAN 11 



the work begun, it may be with the certainty 

 that the very best is about to be accomplished 

 under all three heads. 



Every plot of ground, however great or small 

 it may be — excepting the city lot which, leaving 

 no room whatsoever for choice, is of course not 

 now under consideration — affords just one 

 "best" place for the house which is to take 

 shape upon it. And the location of this any- 

 where but in or upon this best place, is a mis- 

 fortune which no amoimt of ingenuity can ever 

 really overcome. 



But the owner of the average building plot 

 never suspects it of possibilities of even the 

 tamest sort; consequently such a plot is never 

 treated expectantly, as it were. What it has 

 been, it is — and apparently is to go on being, 

 time without end. It faces north, south, east, 

 or west according to the direction of the street 

 whereon it fronts; hence the dwelling which 

 eventually occupies it also faces north, south, 

 east, or west accordingly. It fronts with the 

 front, has a kitchen at the back and a porch 

 displayed. Thus, limited by custom and con- 

 vention and the lack of a single degree of in- 

 dependent, individual thought, each average 

 house is practically like its neighbor and is 

 located on its plot of ground in practically the 



