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The home of Mr. S. A. Pakes, a 
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AMERICAN HOMES: AND GARDENS 
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Hasbrouck Heights, New Jersey. A 
May, 1912 
shingle house of interesting design 
A Group of Suburban Homes 
of the most attractive of 
the New Jersey suburbs. 
They are all worthy of 
careful study by the builders of country 
and suburban homes in any part of the 
United States, for the exteriors are of 
several wholly different types and the 
interiors present several unusual plans 
of floor space. The homes are of dif- 
ferent sizes and have been designed for 
a climate which includes extremes of 
heat as well as weather which is some- 
times exceedingly cold. The grounds 
about the houses have been planned 
with unusual care and the resuit may be 
helpful to other home builders, for very 
often a country home may be made or 
marred by the arrangement of the set- 
ting in which the house is placed. 
A building site some distance above 
HE four very interesting small houses here 
shown were designed and were erected ‘by 
Mr. O. J. Gette, architect, New York, in one 
Entrance porch of the Pakes house 
By Edward M. Carroll 
Photographs by T. C. Turner 
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the street level is frequently supposed to offer difficulties 
which cannot be overcome, and the impulse upon acquiring 
such a building spot is usually to make a contract for its 
reduction to the grade of the surround- 
ing property. The home of Mr. S. A. 
Pakes, at Hasbrouck Heights, New Jer- 
sey, which is here shown, has been built 
upon ground which is far above the 
sidewalk, but so cleverly has the design- 
ing and planning been done that the 
height above the street grade has been 
worked out into a very pleasing and 
decorative feature. The site is some- 
what spacious and across the front of 
the grounds a retaining wall has been 
built of cobblestones and the wall con- 
tinued up the stone steps which ap- 
proach the house. Such a wall is par- 
ticularly interesting where the grounds 
above are planted with shrubbery and 
when in the small spaces between the 
stones are grown the vines and small 
shrubs which make the wall gardens of 
