December, 1912 
a storeroom. 
do with it? 
The artist, looking over 
her neighbor’s fence from 
the newly opened social set- 
tlement, had seen the little 
brick building that just ex- 
actly filled the end of the 
back yard. 
It was entirely covered 
with Japanese ivy, had a de- 
lightful old door, two win- 
dows below of quite different 
sizes and apparently unre- 
lated to any general plan, 
while above was a row of 
four of the primmest little 
square windows that ever 
looked out discreetly from 
under an overhanging roof. 
From the chimney at one 
end were flung out long twigs 
of the ivy which beckoned in- 
zq||HLY, that?” said the old man. 
«|| the wash-house. 
out, but the connection’s still under the floor. 
Rent it to you? 
AMERICAN HOMES AND GARDENS 
The wash-house was transformed into an attractive studio interior 
A Wash-House Studio 
By Katharine Lord 
Photographs by T. C. Turner 
“That’s only 
It’s no good now except as 
Even the water’s been taken 
Pshaw! What would you 
You would surely regret it.” 
what was now a city slum, the 
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The fireplace end of the wash-house before its transformation 
house was startling to say the least. 
vitingly and seemed to point inside, as if they would tell of 
a fireplace and possible good cheer within. 
To the delightful old gentleman who had lived in this 
neighborhood all his life, and remembered corn fields in 
idea of a studio in his wash- 
It was only one more 
step, however, in the general 
lawlessness and lack of due 
respect for custom, so char- 
acteristic of the present 
time, represented in its worst 
form by the street gang of 
boys who battered at his 
front door and threw mud at 
his area windows. The set- 
tlement did not seem to him 
to have a proper horror of 
the Italians who were slowly 
but surely replacing the 
Americans who still clung to 
the quarter, and to have a 
nest .of bohemians in his 
back yard—well, very evi- 
dently the idea did not ap- 
peal-to him at once. 
But the little artist was 
very beguiling and out of her 
