AMERICAN 

 HOMES AND GARDENS 



March, 1910 



J umber 



The Home of Arthur C. Steinbach, Esq., 



Asbury Park, New Jersey 



By Barr Ferree 



T IS seldom that a modern house is, with 

 any success whatever, built in a classic 

 style of architecture. Our conditions of 

 life and climate are almost invariably 

 opposed to those of the classic period, 

 and most of such houses as have bor- 

 rowed classic motifs or which have been 

 built on classic models have failed to provoke more than 

 a moderate curiosity that they should have been erected or 

 that any one could have been expected to live in them. The 

 home life of the ancient Greeks and Romans, and the 



houses they built for the convenience of that life, were so 

 radically different from the home life and the houses of 

 to-day that the problem of adapting classic models to 

 modern conditions has long since been given up as futile. 



But the difficulty has been, in most cases, that the modern 

 classic house has been erected as a quite literal trans- 

 scription of the ancient classic house. In such a case it 

 amounts to little more than a museum, a thing of curiosity, 

 possibly one of beauty, probably one of ingenious adapta- 

 tion, but never a home in the modern acceptation of the 

 word; never a pleasant place to live in; never a comfortable 



The house is built of cement and is well balanced by its two porches 



