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of choosing plans for the 
small house he _ himself 
would like to have. 
The first of the group of 
small houses illustrating this 
article is the home of Mrs. 
Mary F. H. Jonnson, at 
Hackensack, New Jersey, 
designed by Messrs. Mann 
and MacNeille, architects, 
New York, who were also 
the architects of the house of 
Mr. C. A. Ward, at Doug- 
laston Park, Long Island, 
New York, illustrated on 
this page. Both these houses 
are conspicuous for their ex- 
cellent proportions, which 
are based upon the square, 
though both houses are given 
living-rooms whose length is greater than their breadth, 
which is always a point to be sought in the planning of the 
rooms used by the family in common. 
points of similarity in the two houses, and yet they are, each 
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of the veranda of the Ward house 
Floor plans and view 
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of them, individual in at- 
mosphere and in no sense 
does one duplicate the other. 
Externally the Johnson 
house and the Ward house 
are similar in treatment 
though strikingly different in 
effect. In the Johnson 
house \thie veranda 1s 
reached from both the hall- 
way and the living-room, 
while the veranda of the 
Ward house opens only 
from the living-room. A 
comparative study of these 
plans will be well worth 
while, for both have been 
evolved by architects who 
thoroughly understand the 
problem of the small house 
and its new requirements in the numerous differing parts. 
The delightful small gambrel-roof house at Caldwell 
Cedars, Caldwell, New Jersey, designed for Mr. J. W. 
Gosman by Mr. E. G. W. Dietrich, architect, New York, 
