HOUSING 



Alfred Hopkins, Architect, New York City. 

 Men's Boarding House. Hon. Medill McCormick's Farm, Byron, Illinois. 



Sleeping In the North, sleeping porches are not a necessity but at 

 Porches. the same time are in vogue as it is considered healthful to 

 sleep out of doors all the year round. As a wag once 

 said, "in the old days the toilet facilities were out of doors and we 

 slept in the house, but now we sleep out of doors and have brought the 

 toilet facilities inside." This is quite true, but with advancing ideas for 

 health and convenience modern developments have brought about these 

 changes. 



Heat from A kitchen located in the main house especially in the North, 

 Kitchen. often furnishes enough heat from the stove in the early fall 

 to obviate the necessity of starting any other heater or 

 furnace until the weather becomes more severe, and even in the coldest 

 of weather takes the chill off adjoining rooms and frequently is the only 

 means of keeping bed rooms above it at a comfortably warm temper- 

 ature. The kitchen stove should be located against an interior wall. 



Camp Mr. Leifur Magnusson in an article in the "Review of the 



Housing. U. S. Bureau of Labor Statistics," May 1918, treats of the 

 essential needs of agricultural camp housing relating more 

 particularly to the seasonable or migratory labor supply. He suggests 

 that this type of worker common to large farms and plantations may be 

 billeted in nearby towns or in portable houses which can be moved about 

 from place to place. He says that "persons actually in touch with the 



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