AMERICAN HOMES AND GARDENS September, 1909 
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Steps and porch The outdoor sitting-room 
designing must surely have been an agreeable task to its occupants. It is to accomplish this end that the architect 
architect, just as its occupancy must be a source of daily de- applies the best that is in him to the work at hand. As 
light to its owner. And a greater success in house design the illustrations show, Mr. Lowell, not less than Mr. 
there can hardly be. For the chief end of a house is to Smith, is to be heartily congratulated on this fine achieve- 
affords comfort and pleasure and convenience and rest to its ment. 
ce 
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The rooms are most agreeably furnished 
