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roofed laborers' cottages, 

 of the utmost simplicity, 

 which have been lifted out 

 of the sphere of the com- 

 monplace and become 

 things of rural beauty, ow- 

 ing to the careful grouping 

 of the houses, and the 

 hedges and other greenery 

 which have been planted 

 about the cottages to tie 

 them to their sites. 



Bearing these facts in 

 mind, it is interesting to 

 study the development at 

 Ivy Court, Orange, N. J., 

 where a noteworthy effort 

 has been made to erect a 

 picturesque group of houses, 

 which would harmonize in 

 their general outlines and architectural style, and place 

 them in an agreeable environment. The idea was to create 

 something better than the average commercial real estate 

 development, and as one enters the gates at Ivy Court, you 

 cannot help but note the air of repose and dignity sur- 

 rounding these houses, which have been erected for people 

 of taste and discrimination. 



Realizing that in suburban localities, where the houses 

 are apt to be close together, that one house may be utterly 

 ruined by having as its neighbors, houses of alien architec- 

 ture, the development company did away with this possi- 

 bility by building the group of houses under their own 

 supervision, and having them all designed by the same firm, 



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First floor plan of the house illus- 

 trated below 



Messrs. Mann & Mac- 

 Neille, Architects, of New 

 York city. 



As the houses were to 

 be fireproof, the architects 

 took as their models the 

 Italian stucco villas, and the 

 happy results obtained jus- 

 tify their selection, for the 

 houses are beautiful ex- 

 amples of domestic archi- 

 tecture, showing strong 

 Italian influences in outline 

 and detail, and their in- 

 terior arrangements have 

 been made to conform to 

 our climate and living con- 

 ditions. 



Each house has a marked 

 individuality of its own, 



and differs from its neighbor, and yet the simple roof lines, 

 the soft neutral colors of the cement and lattice work, the 

 fenestration, and the pleasing details of doors and windows 

 characterize them all, and make for an harmonious effect, 

 which is lost when each dwelling is radically different in 

 architecture from those around it. 



The houses in Ivy Court are of cement stucco on Natco 

 hollow tile and have the advantage of being fireproof, which 

 is of great importance in districts where it is not easy to be 

 reached by fire-fighting apparatus. The stucco placed 

 directly on the hollow bricks does not loosen or peel as in 

 the case of wooden houses. Few repairs are required on 

 the exteriors of houses constructed in this way. About fifty 



Second floor plan of the 

 illustrated below 



The simple lattice, the many-paned window in the living-room and the balcony are details that give character to the architectural design 



