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AMERICAN HOMES AND GARDENS 



October, 1910 



namental touches in the way of out-door furniture have 

 been added since the photographs were made. A long, cen- 

 ter driveway was imperative, but this has been balanced 

 by a formal entrance and a graceful loop at the extreme 

 end. 



From the farthest point of view the eye is arrested by 

 the contrasted colors of the roofs, side walls and trim- 

 mings, which bear a touch of resemblance to the Old World 

 buildings from which the 

 exterior lines have been 

 adopted. Some of the 

 roofs are of red tiles, 

 others are of colored slates, 

 violet, blue and green, laid 

 like shingles. 



The shutters, some of 

 them made after the Ital- 

 ian manner, the casement 

 windows, hooded d o o r- 

 ways and mosaics laid in 

 the stucco, contribute to 

 the quaint charm of the 

 architectural lines. 



The American fondness 

 for living out of doors in 

 the warm weather, which 

 finds expression In some 

 kind of porch or piazza at- 

 tachment to every subur- 

 ban house, has not been 

 disregarded, but, rather, 

 made a significant part of 

 each plan, appearing not 



always in the front, but sometimes at the side or back in an 

 attractive veranda. Iron balconies on the second floor of 

 original designs the better to meet a decorative effect, and 

 the housewife's need for the airing of clothes and rugs, 

 are also kept in mind. 



With the cellars of poured concrete, the floors of re- 

 inforced concrete, walls and partitions of tiles and roofs 

 of tiles or slates, the solidity of these houses — aside from 

 their fireproof qualities — is more than assured. 



Floors of Welsh quarry tiles have been laid in the vesti- 

 bules and halls as the most sanitary surface for these situa- 

 tions, imparting also an agreeable color note that will, 

 doubtless be repeated in the wall coverings and window 

 curtains, and intermixed with the blues and dull reds of 

 Oriental rugs. 



A comfortable kitchen 



The fireplace is universally conceded to be the architec- 

 tural focus of a room, a fact that has been most artistically 

 presented in each of the Kellogg-Green houses. The de- 

 signs for the woodwork have been, in every instance 

 supported by brick or tile facing, in harmonizing colors and 

 styles. The Moravian Pottery has been drawn on for 

 the latter details, besides plaster reproductions of classic 

 sculpture. The hearth stones, seemingly a minor item, 



have also been carefully 

 selected to conform to the 

 fireplace scheme as a 

 whole. 



In the choice of wood 

 for the interior finish the 

 preference has been given 

 to chestnut for the first 

 floor, on which gray, green 

 or brown stain has been ap- 

 plied. In some of the 

 houses the finish for the 

 floors corresponds with the 

 trim. On the bedroom of 

 the second story the wood 

 finish is painted white. 



A marked innovation is 

 the installing of glass- 

 paned, hinged doors in 

 place of the ordinary slid- 

 ing doors between the prin- 

 cipal rooms, to be screened 

 with net or silk, if desired, 

 or to be left with the glass 

 exposed for increasing the 

 light. Another picturesque eftect is contributed by raising 

 one of the living-rooms of the first floor above the general 

 level, as, for instance, where the dining-room is reached by 

 three wide, low steps from the library. 



Such of the houses as have been already papered in- 

 dicate the resourcefulness of these houses for an artistic 

 expression that usually belongs only with dwellings of high 

 cost. Lacking the numerous jogs and angles of a frame 

 building, the simplicity of line exacted by the tile con- 

 struction appears to advantage when the decoration of the 

 wall is attempted, giving a feeling of space even in the 

 most contracted quarters. 



The imported wall-papers, French, English and German, 

 selected for the different rooms, have been considered, not 

 alone for their individual effect, but also for the harmon- 



First floor plan 



The windows are effectively placed 



Second floor plan 



