June, 1912 
Board floorings throughout the house prevent dampness, 
and the interior partitions are of carefully matched boards. 
An annex, fitted up with bunks, and protected at the front 
with the same waterproof sail arrangement as the bedrooms 
and living-room of the camp proper, stands at one side of 
the main camp, and is used as a guest house. Casement 
windows render it wholly light and airy. It is finished in 
the same manner as the main dwelling, and commands the 
same picturesque outlook. ‘The cost complete of the camp 
and the annex of bunks was exactly five hundred dollars. 
The joy of living in such a house is that derived from the 
kinship with nature which a dwelling of this sort makes pos- 
The main bunkrooms 
AMERICAN HOMES AND GARDENS 
The vista from the porch towards the grove of pines in front of the Coit camp is delightful 
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sible, a contact with the outside world of growing things, of 
trees, shrubs, flowers and vines, of birds and of blue skies 
and white clouds, even of the Winter’s landscape, a contact 
that must finally exert upon anyone an enormous influence. 
Rainy days may come, but who has not discovered how glori- 
ous the countryside appears through the veil of the storm, 
and in its freshened beauty afterwards? With a roaring 
blaze in the huge fireplace of this camp, around whose crack- 
ling logs the family and friend gather, and from their vant- 
age point of comfort gaze out on the changed landscape, 
who would say a day like this was gloomy, who could find 
monotony in the hour, or for the moment, welcome change? 
Corner of the kitchen-porch 
