LOCATION OF BUILDINGS 



IN several ways the spot where buildings are located 

 should be controlling. They occupy the key to 

 the situation. Here most of the time the human 

 beings live, the men, women, and children, and their 

 physical needs and comforts should be satisfied and 

 their mental and spiritual desires, for here man abides 

 and finds his home, and if he wanders he returns here, 

 and wants in this spot especially the very best that life 

 can give him. Consequently, the house must have the 

 chief part of his attention, and therefore too much care 

 cannot be given to the choice of the site. This is the 

 way Humphry Repton expresses the same idea: 

 "However various opinions may be on the choice of 

 a situation for a house, yet there appear to be certain 

 principles on which such choice ought to be founded; 

 and these may be deduced from the following consider- 

 ations: First: The natural character of the surround- 

 ing country. Secondly: The style, character, and size 

 of the house. Thirdly: The aspects of exposure, both 

 with regard to the sun and the prevalent winds of the 

 country. Fourthly: The shape of the ground near 



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