AMERICAN 

 HOMES AND GARDENS 



Modem Houses from the Atlantic to the Pacific 



By Francis Durando Nichols 



HE twentieth century idea of building a 

 house artistically has developed most effec- 

 tively across the entire country, from the 

 Atlantic to the Pacific Coast. One who 

 is accustomed to the style of small house 

 that is to be found in the East, will be as- 

 tonished, as he travels over the continent, 

 to find a type that from an architectural point of view is 



equally as good as any to be found in the eastern section. 

 And still greater the astonishment, when in the West, he 

 learns the economic fact that there the small house is far 

 superior in its interior arrangement, particularly the ser- 

 vice part, which has received a deal of consideration in 

 order to overcome as far as possible the difficulties of the 

 domestic problem now seriously confronting most house- 

 keepers. 



Fig. 2 — The garden terrace and pergola 



