June, 1 910 



AMERICAN HOMES AND GARDENS 



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the kitchen by a private stairway. The third floor contains 

 ample storage space and a trunk-room. 



There is heating apparatus, fuel-room and laundry in the 

 cellar. 



The house. Figs. 

 12, 13 and 14, built 

 for Charles Van 

 Duesen, at Kenil- 

 worth, 111., is fin- 

 ished on a square 

 line, which is re- 

 lieved by the living- 

 porch at the side of 

 the building, and is 

 separated from the 

 entrance porch at 

 the front of the 

 house. 



The exterior of 

 the house is built of 



1 — First-floor plan 



tion with the rear stairway leading from the kitchen. The 

 ingle-nook is provided with a fireplace built of Roman 

 brick, with the facings and the hearth of similar material. 

 The ceiling is beamed, and the walls are covered with a 



gray green wall 

 paper. 



The dining-room, 

 which is octagonal in 

 form, is trimmed 

 with oak. The walls 

 have batten wains- 

 coting, extending up 

 to the plate-rack. 

 The panels formed 

 by these battens are 

 covered with a dull 

 blue burlap, while 

 the wall space 

 above the plate-rack 

 is covered with the 



stucco to the height of the second story window-sills. The same stuff in yellow. The butler's pantry and the kitchen 

 remainder of the building is covered with shingles, stained are fitted complete with all the best modern appointments. 

 and finished in a soft brown. The trimmings are painted The second story has a white enamel trim and the doors 



white. The roof is 

 shingled. The hall 

 is a central one, 

 with a living-room 

 on one side and a 

 dining-room on the 

 other, beyond which 

 are the butler's pan- 

 try and the kitchen. 

 The second floor 

 contains two bed- 

 rooms and a bath- 

 room, the latter be- 

 ing furnished with 

 porcelain fixtures 

 and exposed plumb- 

 ing. The cellar 

 contains the heating 

 apparatus, the laun- 

 dry and the fuel- 

 rooms. 



The cost of the 

 house was $3,100. 

 Mr. Howard Bowen, of Chicago, was the architect 



Fig. 1 2 — Stucco and shingles are the materials used 



The 



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louse 



i« was built for 

 from plans pre- 



house presented in Figs. 15, 16, 17 and 

 Mr. Harry H. Boice, at Wilmette, 111., 

 pared by Arthur S. 

 Brown, architect, of 

 Chicago, 111. 



The exterior 

 walls are construct- 

 ed of stucco with a 

 rough caste finish. 

 The walls are gray 

 in tone, and the 

 trimmings are 

 painted white. The 

 roof is shingled. 



The entrance, 

 reached from the 

 porch built at the 

 front, leads direct 

 into the living-room, 

 which extends 



across the face of the house. The room is trimmed with 

 oak and is stained and finished in a forest green effect. 

 From this room the staircase, which is separated by a lat- 

 ticed screen, rises to the second story, and is in combina- 



are finished in ma- 

 hogany. The bath- 

 r o o m Is finished 

 with porcelain fix- 

 tures and exposed 

 nickel-plated plumb- 

 ing. 



There is an open 

 attic, in which 

 rooms can be fin- 

 ished off if desired. 



The cellar con- 

 tains heating appar- 

 atus, fuel - rooms 

 and laundry. 



This house cost 

 $4,800 complete. 



Mr. Charles R. 

 Bull's house at Ken- 

 ilworth. 111., is a 

 representative type 

 of the stucco struc- 

 ture found in the 

 Middle West. The lines of the building are square in 

 form, and permit of an economical construction, but are 

 sufficiently broken by the chimney built on the exterior of 



the house, the two 

 bay windows and 

 the porch. These 

 are details which 

 add much to relieve 

 the severe delinea- 

 tions of the exterior 

 walls. The design- 

 ing of the windows 

 in a house of this 

 kind is a very im- 

 portant matter, and 

 the diamond panes 

 placed in the upper 

 sash of the windows 

 through out the 

 house add to their 

 ornamentation in a 

 exterior framework throughout is 

 finished in a soft gray tone, while 



The 



Second-floor plan 

 The 



simple manner 



covered with stucco, 



the trimmings are painted a grayish white color 



shingled roof is left to weather finish. 



