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AMERICAN HOMES AND GARDENS 
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RELATION OF OUTBUILDIN 
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HE DWELLING HOUSE 
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his house will probably find that t 
dwelling is by no means the 
only building problem confront- 
ing him. The modern house, 
whether it be a small-one or 
one of pretentious proportions, will, in all 
probability, require other buildings comple- 
mentary to it to complete the home architectural 
group. There will be the stable, or the garage— 
both perhaps—various sheds, the outside store- 
house, poultry houses and the outbuildings in 
general that are requisite to the convenience of 
a permanent domicile. The wise home-builder 
and the thorough architect has come to appre- 
ciate the fact that harmonizing the outbuildings 
with the dwelling house is one of the most im- 
portant matters for serious consideration in plan- 
ning the premises for ultimate effectiveness. One 
style of architecture throughout any group of 
buildings lends to them a strength of architec- 
HE home-builder who has settled aye the plan for 
jacent outbuildings, and one notes how much more interesting the 
chalet-like house is for having its nearby garage and outside servant 
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quarters designed along the same general lines, 
or the half-timber house for having its stable and 
gardener'’s cottage carried out in half-timber style 
likewise. The early builders in America had an 
eye for this sort of thing and planned their out- 
buildings to harmonize with their houses. One 
does not quickly forget the charm of the English 
village where its cottages present outbuildings 
usually in accord with their design, which pro- 
duces an aspect at once harmonious and attrac- 
tive. Of course, the material employed in build- 
ing the dwelling will often determine the group- 
ing of the outbuildings. A Dutch Colonial frame 
house, for instance, can properly be connected 
by covered passageways with the various out- 
buildings about it. One has only to recall Mount 
Vernon to bring to mind the successful arrange- 
ment there of the colonnades uniting the service 
wings. With stucco houses all the buildings of the 
tural purpose, as it were, that adds greatly to the distinctiveness and premises may properly be brought into relationship by actually con- 
attractiveness of any home surroundings.. The reader will see dis- necting them, whereas with the half-timber or even with the brick 
played upon these pages various types of dwellings and their ad- house, the scheme of separated buildings is more pleasing to the eye. 
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