May, 1912 
some people habitually come downstairs with a matutinal 
spleen and it needs sunlight and a cheery smoking break- 
fast table to dispel the vapors. “The dining-room opens into 
a pantry and the pantry into the kitchen. 
On the second floor there are three good-sized bedrooms 
and a bath, while the attic contains two more bedrooms 
Considering the 
and also a good share of closet space. 
small size of the house the 
rooms are of unusually am- 
ple dimensions; the living-hall 
is twenty-two feet by four- 
teen and one half, the din- 
ing-room twelve and a half 
by thirteen and the kitchen 
fourteen and a half by ten. 
Better still, the rooms are all 
light and sunny; a glance at 
the good, whole-souled win- 
dows would assure one of 
that. Though the windows 
are so broad they do not 
dwarf the house, their wide- 
awake honesty ought to be 
a rebuke to anyone with a 
mind ready to stoop to archi- 
tectural shams. Recently a 
very second-rate architect 
proudly held up for admira- 
tion and approval the eleva- 
tions of a small house that he had tried to make look large 
by reducing the windows to ridiculous dimensions, “‘to 
fool them” as he remarked with a sly grimace. If he 
could be fetched to see the ingenuous expression of the 
windows in this little $5,500 house he might perhaps 
experience a change of heart. The rubble walls of this 
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house are of native stone. A penthouse runs round the 
building at the level of the second floor and above that the 
walls are rough cast, giving altogether a very pleasing as- 
pect to the exterior. 
Another $5,500 house provides on its first floor a hall 
opening by an archway into a living-room sixteen and a 
half feet by thirteen, back of this a dining-room of the same 
measurements, a pantry, a 
kitchen eleven feet by four- 
teen and a laundry. Up- 
stairs there are three large 
bedrooms with a goodly al- 
lowance of closet space and 
a bathroom, while the attic 
has two bedrooms and a loft, 
floored but not ceiled, one 
‘ of those delightful places 
where one can stow all sorts 
of odds and ends to be 
rummaged among on rainy 
days with the drops patter- 
ing a monotonous tune on 
the shingles overhead. This 
house also has rubble walls 
for the first floor and rough 
cast for all above that. 
In both these houses of 
course everything has been 
kept down to the lowest pos- 
sible figure but nothing has been skimped. Embellishments 
of any kind have been omitted but all necessities have been 
carefully considered. Honestly and staunchly built, judi- 
ciously planned and designed with an eye to architectural 
propriety, these dwellings have proved signally satisfactory 
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Second floor plan 
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This stone and stucco house was erected at a complete cost not exceeding $7,000 
