POSITION AND PLAN 17 



vailing system of the present, the builder must 

 of course conform to colony restrictions and re- 

 quirements; which means that twenty -five feet 

 or thereabouts must be given up in front of the 

 dwelling — more perhaps, if the building units 

 are deeper and wider than fifty by one hundred 

 feet. This size, however, is a fair average, and 

 I have chosen it as the most typical plot for con- 

 sideration throughout. All that applies to it ap- 

 plies equally to the larger areas, up to and in- 

 cluding the quarter-acre unit, but with proper- 

 ties larger than this I have not considered it 

 proper here to deal, for they are in a class apart. 



Of course a farm may be, and often is, as 

 truly suburban as any tiny cottage plot, but in 

 its special significance the suburban or village 

 home consists of from two to four selling units 

 or lots, each probably twenty-five by one hun- 

 dred feet in size. It takes seventeen of such 

 lots to make an acre, approximately, the exact 

 size of the latter being 43,560 square feet — or, 

 reduced to "real estate" measurements, a tract 

 one hundred feet deep by four hundred and 

 thirty -five feet and a fraction over seven inches 

 long. One hundred feet by one hundred, or 

 four lots, is thus not quite a quarter acre. 



There are two kinds of houses to choose be- 

 tween for the typical fifty by one hundred foot 



