152 AMERICAN HOMES AND GARDENS May, 1912 
Ware “Wino-Reoy 
First floor plan Second floor plan 
suggestion of permanency 
about a small house of this 
sort, and it is doubtful if one 
could select a more pictur- 
esque type for the uncrowded 
suburban district given over 
to modern homes. 
has succeeded in knitting it 
to its site—the trellis-screen 
that separates the lawn from 
the service yard. ‘The en- 
closed veranda practically 
adds a room to the lower 
floor, converting that portion The two houses illustrated 
of it into a sun-parlor i, ——z NTE erm ~ aa on this page were designed 
goodly proportions. The Floor plans and exterior of the stucco house owned by Mr. Pickslay, for Mr. F. W. Woodward 
isolation of the kitchen, Oakley Manor, Mount Vernon, New York and for Mr. J. O. Newell, of 
which is conveniently reached, however, is admirably Glen Ridge, New Jersey, by Mrs. Frances G. Tynan, archi- 
planned. ‘The house owned by Mr. Pickslay is not less at- tect, Glen Ridge, New Jersey. Both are excellent examples 
tractive, although the planting has not yet been so far of attractive small houses of the gambrel-roof type and 
advanced as to set it off as it will be with the approach of give one a helpful idea of the different effects obtained in 
another season. ‘This house 1s the varying detail of two 
of the stucco type and the houses upon the same gen- 
plaster walls of its exterior are eral lines. The arrangement 
relieved by well designed case- of the pantry, as shown in 
ment windows set with dia- the first floor plan, is one of 
mond panes, which, together the most striking features of 
with the lines of the roof, sug- the house, for while it is eas- 
gests the cottage architecture ily accessible from either din- 
ofsEmeland: The enclosed ing-room or kitchen, forming 
porch or sun-parlor runs quite a passage from one to the 
across one end of the house, other, it does not interfere 
giving a room almost the size with or break into the long 
of the living-room from which it is reached. As in the wall space of the former room. With the passing of time 
Clark house, the architect has here solved the problem of hedge, vines and shrubbery would add still more to their 
placing the kitchen most successfully. There is a delightful homelike cosiness and will obtain for them seclusion. 
Floor plans of the Woodward house 
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Home of Mr. J. O. Newell (to the left) and home of Mr. F. W. Woodward (to the right). Both of these houses are at Glen Ridge, New Jersey 
