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Volume X 



May 1913 



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Number 5 



Houses of Moderate Size 



By Gardner Teall 

 Photographs by T. C. Turner 



HE domestic architecture of a nation re- 

 flects, from period to period, not only the 

 manners and customs of the people, but like- 

 wise gives hint of the increased intercourse 

 between nations by reason of the adoption 

 or adaptation of the available features of 

 the architecture of one land to the needs of another. Here 

 in America this is more particularly true, I think, than in 

 any other land. We have recognized the charm of the 

 English half-timber cottage, the picturesqueness of the 

 Italian villa type, the strength of the Scandinavian village 

 houses, and from these and from other models — Swiss, 



Japanese, Dutch, Spanish and other examples — we have 

 taken the best as we have required it, at least, much of our 

 architectural inspiration has received its spiritual impetus 

 from such sources, so that now we have been able to evolve 

 for ourselves small houses of every sort, adopted to any 

 site, and fitting the individual family requirements of any 

 homemaker. 



There was a time when the homemaker who started out 

 to build a small house felt bound by the old traditions of a 

 parlor, a sitting-room, a library, a dining-room and a break- 

 fast-room, and so many "spare" bedrooms that the servants 

 had to squeeze into the tiny chambers which the old time 



The home of Mr. John Hobbs, Pelham Heights, New York, a most successful type of the small house 



