October, 1906 



AMERICAN HOMES AND GARDENS 



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1 — A Colonial House of Good Type, with a Central Hall and Rooms on Either Side, Beyond which the Living-porches are Placed 



mantels. There are two servants' bedrooms and bath on the apart from each other. They are houses of good type, are 

 third floor and also a trunk-room. The heating appara- well built and are planned in a thoroughly economical man- 

 tus and fuel-rooms are in the cellar. The house as a com- ner. They are designed in quiet taste and are finely adapted 

 pleted whole represents a very excellent piece of Colonial to the individual requirements of their owners, and they also 

 work, and was designed by Mr. Lionel Moses, architect, of well illustrate, to a marked degree, the moderate-priced 

 New York. house of the better class, and are just such houses as arc- 

 All of the three houses have an interest of their own desired by people of refined tastes and moderate means. 



Originality, Old and New 



OUR or five hundred years hence, when the 

 history of our contemporary American 

 architecture comes to be written, it will be 

 strange indeed if the art historians of that 

 day do not point out that the most signifi- 

 cant movement in American building art at 

 the end of the nineteenth century and the beginning of the 

 twentieth was the deliberate copying and transplanting of 



the designs of old buildings to American soil. As a matter 

 of fact the readaptation of the designs of existing European 

 buildings to the design of American structures is now so 

 vigorous an industry that the moment a new design is pub- 

 lished the first thought, in many cases, is, where did the archi- 

 tect get the idea from? Hence it is that towers of Moorish 

 Spain, Italian palaces, Gothic cathedrals, the designs of 

 modern European buildings, and even the unexecuted 



1 1 — The Plans are Arranged to Accommodate a Fairly Good-sized Family 



