June, 1909 AMERICAN HOMES AND GARDENS 247 
courses. These shingles are stained a soft 
gray color, while the trimmings throughout 
are painted white for the first story and 
gray for the second and third. The blinds 
are painted bottle-green. The interior is 
treated the same as the houses already de- 
scribed. Cost, four thousand nine hundred 
dollars complete. 
All the houses are supplied with gas and 
electric-lighting apparatus, and fixtures in 
keeping with the style of the buildings. 
The grounds around each of these little 
houses are well laid out. Concrete walks 
extend in from the highway to the front 
door and to the rear door. 
These houses, in design and construction, 
comprise an excellent group, the cost of 
which is not much over four thousand 
dollars. 
To build a large house is one thing, 
but to build a small one, is another, espe- 
cially when it is to be considered that the 
wants of the modern family of to-day are 
quite equal to the man who builds a much 
greater house. 
To build a small house, with an exterior 
elevation that is artistic and distinctive, and 
have an arrangement of rooms that are of 
good size and convenient in their relation Dyes, OO 
to each other, and to have included in it | 
all the best modern conveniences and im- 
provements for light and heat, and all the 
sanitary features which are necessary, for 
the sum of four thousand dollars, is a feat eae 
that requires much thought and study on ye oes 
the part of the architect, yet this is what 
the architect has done. 
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Fig. 10—Plans 
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Fig. | 1|—The second-floor plan of Mr. Fig. |2—Mr. Meyer's house is built after the floor plans used for 
Frederick Bett’s house Mr. Bett’s house 
