A well-planned and attractive stone and stucco house of this sort always dignifies the site by reason of its goodly proportions and excellent design 
AMERICAN HOMES AND GARDENS 
May, 1912 
Small Houses of Stone and Stucco 
By Costen Fitz Gibbon 
Photographs by T. C. Turner 
door of his first humble dwelling in America 
a motto that provoked a smile from William 
Penn and elicited some pleasantry when the 
Lord Proprietor of the Province of Penn- 
sylvania paid a visit to the worthy German 
colonist and schoolmaster just come from overseas, for 
domiciliation in this new hemisphere. ‘This motto was: 
Parva domus, amica bonis, 
Sed este procul profani. 
The sentiment of combined 
contentment and _ hospitality 
contained therein may _ well 
point a moral for us in this day 
of sometimes extravagant big- 
ness and flamboyant display. 
Contentment, comfort, con- 
venience, tastefulness of ar- 
rangement, all these are per- 
fectly possible in a small house. 
A small house is not necessarily 
a jerry-built abomination ut- 
terly devoid of every quality a 
house ought to possess. On 
the contrary, a house may be 
both small and inexpensive and 
yet just as attractive and engag- 
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ing as a large one. Everything depends on two factors— 
the thought bestowed by the architect and the personality 
of the master or mistress. We can all of us, without much 
effort, think of some small house that it is a delight to 
look upon and where we esteem it a privilege to call, and 
all because of the graciousness of the occupants in the first 
place and the charm of their setting in the second. In 
time past a certain odium attached to the small house and 
to some extent it still exists but it is rapidly disappear- 
ing as the small house becomes 
more and more pleasing 
through the application of in- 
telligent architectural effort. 
The accompanying illustra- 
tions show certain small houses 
of a group at Cynwyd, Pa., 
most of them designed by 
Messrs. Savery, Scheetz & Sav- 
ery, architects, Philadelphia, 
not one of which cost above 
$7,000 and several of them 
cost considerably less. Now a 
good many people who find it 
expedient or desirable to live 
in small houses are rather vi- 
tally interested in knowing all 
about small house plans and 
their price. Some live in small 
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