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June, 1912 
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The street front of the interesting and well-designed cottage type residence of Mr. William F. Russell, at Summit 
HOMES AND GARDENS 
BS HAI: aot 
, New Jersey 
An American Cottage of English Type 
By Berwyn Converse 
Photographs by T. C. Turner and others 
UCH of the domestic architecture of Eng- 
land seems to be the direct following of 
the work of the builders of centuries ago. 
Architecture in England never reached quite 
the the low estate to which it descended in 
America some thirty or forty years ago, and 
the renaissance of good 
taste, when it came, found 
so much of the old work still 
existing that the revival and 
application of correct stand- 
ards of building and decora- 
tion was accomplished much 
more easily and more rap- 
idly than in this country. It 
would be difficult, perhaps, 
to define the “modern Eng- 
lish style” or to say just what 
the term implied, but, broad- 
ly speaking, it may be said 
to embody a certain balanc- 
ing of mass and a symmetry 
in planning ornament and 
The Winter aspect of 
ape a IPO geen 
the house is also pleasing 
fenestration, combined with a quality quaintness which ren- 
ders formality delightfully informal. 
Something of this spirit is expressed in the home of 
Mr. William F. Russell, at Summit, New Jersey, designed 
by Benjamin V. White, architect, New York. A home in the 
country more than anywhere else should be planned to care- 
fully adapt it to its location 
and here the site consisted 
of a broad, shallow plot 
sloping backward rather 
abruptly from the street to 
a stretch of woodland with 
some fine forest trees. This 
afforded a somewhat ample 
and. generous setting for 
what has proved to be a par- 
ticularly attractive and “‘in- 
dividual home.” ‘The place 
as it has been worked out, 
provided for two fronts— 
one facing the street and one 
facing the woods just be- 
yond the house. ‘The street 
