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AMERICAN HOMES AND GARDENS 



May, 1913 



Two views of the living-room in the Hobbs house 



house-planners seemed invariably to allot to their comfort, man of to-day who starts out to build a house looks back. 



or rather their discomfort, finally finishing off with back upon the era of mistakes of his predecessors and finds in 



stairs so steep that one had to affect the agility of a goat these mistakes contrasts which serve as an invaluable les- 



safely to reach the top from the bottom and vice versa, son in his own progress toward better and more sensible 



First floor plan, Hobbs house 



Dining-room, Hobbs house 



Second floor plan, Hobbs house 



Nowadays all this has changed. Our metamorphosis dwellings, a retrospection not without its advantages, 

 from our domestic architectural cocoon is complete, and Perhaps we owe less to modern foreign influences than 



we have emerged to the sunlight of happier things. The to the models of our own country's Colonial period and, 



Three interesting houses at Glen Ridge, New Jersey, practically from the same floor plans 



