May, 1 9 13 



AMERICAN HOMES AND GARDENS 



163 



The house of Mr. W. P. H. Bacon, Bronxville, New York, is an excellent type of the small house of stucco 



The Small House of Stucco 



By Kirby Hendricks 

 Photographs by T. C. Turner 



HE question as to the material of which the 

 home is to be built is presented, and must 

 be answered just as many times as there are 

 houses constructed. The problem isn't dif- 

 ficult of solution where a large house is 

 concerned, for the building of such a house 



presupposes the expenditure of a sum sufficiently ample to 



cover its reasonable cost so 



that the difference between the 



value of several kinds of ma- 

 terial isn't often sufficiently 



great enough to be a serious 



item. Where a small house is 



to be built, however, the case 



is somewhat different, for the 



man about to build a home of 



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medium cost is naturally impressed with the necessity of 

 selecting a building material which shall make possible the 

 best house which can be secured for his appropriation. 



Now the beauty and general desirability of stone as a 

 building material are so well recognized, that only its cost 

 prevents it being used more frequently. Brick is often 

 very nearly as costly as stone, so the choice is apt to narrow 



down to a selection of wood 

 or of some one of the various 

 forms of what may be called 

 "plastic" construction which 

 have come into such extensive 

 use during the past few 

 years. 



There is much to be said 

 both for and against the use of 



First floor plan 



Entrance front of the Bacon House 



Second floor plan 



