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AMERICAN HOMES AND GARDENS 



May, 19 10 



To build a small house on 

 question, and one that has not 

 this country, though there is 

 absolutely no reason why it 

 should not be. The para- 

 mount thought of the average 

 house-builder of small houses 

 on small lots is to construct 

 a house that will be so many 

 feet wide and so many feet 

 deep, and to contain so 

 many rooms, without any 

 thought as to its exposure or 

 setting. 



The development of the 

 grounds about the house usu- 

 ally consists in grading and 

 sowing them with grass seed. 



a small plot is a different 

 altogether been solved in 



Fig. 3 — Second floor plan 



The Westerner has caught the spirit of this expression, 

 and has developed it in a more forceful manner than is to 



be found in many of the sub- 

 urban towns of the important 

 cities of the East. I am not 

 speaking of the great estates 

 in the East, which are laid out 

 under the direction of skilled 

 landscape architects, for the 

 beauty of such as these is in 

 many respects beyond ques- 

 tion; but I am referring only 

 to the class of houses that is 

 illustrated in this article — the 

 class that is built on a subur- 

 ban lot. 



Take, for example, the 

 house illustrated in Figs, i, 2, 



This Is not as it 

 should be, for if a 

 man will observe 

 what a dweller of 

 mode rate means 

 does in England, he 

 will find that no 

 matter what the 

 size of his grounds 

 may be, even if he 

 is possessed of only 

 a garden space of 

 twenty feet square, 

 it is thoroughly cul- 

 tivated and planted with growing shrubs and flowers. 

 This is one of the reasons why England resembles a 

 great park, for the desire of beautification is instilled 

 into the hearts of its subjects, no matter how humble. 



Fig. 4 — The exterior of the house is built of stucco and redwood shakes 



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Fig. 5 — First floor plan 



3, 4, 5, 6 and 7, 

 which was built for 

 Timothy Walsh, 

 Esq., at Pasadena, 

 Cal. It is one of 

 excellent design and 

 fine proportions and 

 sufficient detail, but 

 wtiat would it look 

 like if it were not 

 for the excellent 

 planting which has 

 been done about it, 

 for flowers are 

 growing every- 

 where, and are 

 clinging to it in an 

 artistic profusion. 



