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treatment, and put its wall exactly on the line. 

 Plan a basement service entrance on that side, 

 with all passages, storage spaces, and presses 

 on each floor likewise along its blind expanse. 

 It need not be a blind wall in the building of it 

 unless the next door dwelling makes this de- 

 sirable; but think out the plan so carefully 

 that the necessity for closing up whatever win- 

 dows it may contain, should it arise, will work 

 no real disadvantage to the interior. For even 

 the narrow strip of land which would be sac- 

 rificed on the other side if the house were set 

 only a few feet from the line, is precious, mean- 

 ing as it does an absolute waste of anywhere 

 from one hundred and twenty to one hundred 

 and fifty square feet — according to the length 

 of the house — which should and might just as 

 well be conserved in one with the ground on its 

 sunny, living side. 



And here is the second: If the other sort of 

 house is to be built, carry it all the way across 

 the lot, right up to one or both boundaries; 

 and make it as shallow as convenience and ex- 

 pediency will permit, keeping both its side walls 

 blind. There are two reasons for this very 

 radical obscuring of side walls and eliminating 

 of passage space at the sides, beside the reason 

 already mentioned in connection with the long 



