WHEN YOU BUILD YOUR HOUSE 



BY RAWSON WOODMAN HADDON 



WHILE enterprising gentlemen with a mind for Sta- 

 tistics occasionally figure out for us just how 

 many years hundred, thousand or million it 

 will be before our coal supply or our iron supply 

 gives out, it is a notable fact that 

 these figures are seldom made to 

 include lumber because there are 

 always the possibilities of repro- 

 duction in forestry which can- 

 not be applied to those other 

 products. 



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In New York State alone there are more 

 than 1 2,000,000 acres of land on which a 

 new supply of timber can be grown. 



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"New York State alone has some 12,000,000 acres of land which 

 are better adapted to growing timber than any other purpose, and of this 

 area the State owns 1,800,000 acres constituting the Adirondack and Cats- 

 kill Forest Reserves," says Prof. A. B. Recknagel, Forester of the Empire 

 State Forest Products Association, in a statement just issued. The senti- 

 ment expressed in "Woodman, spare that tree," is not thoroughly sound, 

 says Prof. Recknagel, who urges that the forests should be properly ex- 

 ploited under intelligent supervision in order that they may be made of 

 the greatest use to the people of the State. 



For the uses of domestic architecture the exploitation of the forest does 

 not consist, simply, of chopping down trees and cutting them into so many 

 clapboards and studs or beams. 



In addition to all this it includes the transplantation of fully grown trees 

 for the landscape architect's purposes, to regions where the natural growth 

 is immature, as well as the growth and care of the smallest and most deli- 

 cate shrubs for ornamental uses in carrying out the whole intent and pur- 

 pose of the architect's design. 



In the development of American architecture, that is, the true product 

 the really national architecture that embodies within itself all the best 

 ideals of American home life wood has always occupied a distinctly im- 

 portant position. 



The earliest homes of colonial settlers of which many 

 are still in existence after generation upon generation of 

 exposure and carelessness and neglect were almost in- 

 variably built of wood. 



The fact that so many of these ' 

 buildings are still in existence 

 speaks well for the durability of 

 the material, while the fact that 

 it was chosen by the great Co- 

 lonial designers the men who 



THE WHITE PINE ENTRANCE DOOR 



The sharpness of the mouldings could probably 



not have been obtained on any other wood. 



Hollingsworth & Bragdon, Architects. 



RESIDENCE OF MR. WILLIAMSON T. CAROTHERS, NETHERWOOD, N. J. 



built the glorious houses of 

 Salem and Cambridge, for in- 

 stance and the fact that it is 

 still chosen by architects of to- 

 day out of the great mass of 

 building materials that have 

 been invented during the more 

 recently passed years, speaks 

 equally well for its plastic 

 qualities in accommodating it- 

 self to the various conditions 

 imposed by design, by struc- 

 tural necessities and the hun- 

 dred and one other conditions 

 that must be taken into consid- 

 eration by the architect before 

 the first steps of actual building 

 are commenced. 



During the course of these 

 many years, it is natural that 

 certain materials should have 

 been found more satisfactory 



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