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AMERICAN HOMES AND GARDENS 



October, 1908 



The Houses Are Built of Stucco with a White Cement Wash and Red Brick Base 



F?'rs£ F~/oor 



The Dining-room Has a Colonial Mantel 



curtains over softer ones of lace. The 

 walls are covered with a green-striped wall 

 paper in two tones, and finished with a 

 heavy molded cornice. 



The dining-room has a white-painted 

 trim and the walls are covered with a fig- 

 ured paper in two-tone autumnal brown 

 color. The open fireplace has a Colonial 

 mantel and brick facings and hearth. 



The second story is divided into five 

 sleeping-rooms and two bathrooms ; the lat- 

 ter being wainscoted with tile and fur- 

 nished with porcelain fixtures and exposed 

 nickelplated plumbing. 



The kitchen and pantry are trimmed 

 with cypress and treated with a natural 

 finish. Both the kitchen and pantry and 

 laundry are fitted with all the best modern 

 conveniences. 



The third floor is utilized for extra guest 

 rooms, servants' rooms and bathroom and 

 trunk room. The cellar contains the heat- 

 ing apparatus, fuel rooms and cold storage. 

 By this arrangement of the place it permits 

 of the placing of the stables at the rear 

 of the property and under one roof. 



Considerable planting has been done 

 about the grounds which have blended well 

 the fine old trees and shrubs which sur- 

 round the property. 



Each stable contains ample space for the 

 accommodation of horses, carriages re- 

 quired, and for the men's room and storage 

 space in the second story. Messrs. Bailey 

 and Bassett, of Philadelphia, Pa., were the 

 architects. 



The arrangement carried out in this plan 

 is not only novel and interesting, but is 

 eminently desirable and notable. For gen- 

 eral adaptation it would imply a certain 

 friendliness and even intimacy between the 

 households occupying the two houses; but 

 as a matter of fact their actual proximity 

 is much less than is generally the case with 

 houses built in pairs and rows. Even were 

 the land area occupied by each house no 

 more than might be ordinarily needed for 

 dwellings of about the size of these, there 

 is a distinct gain, since the land is occupied 

 in a much better, more economical and 

 more agreeable way than if each house was 

 planted in the exact center of what might 

 be called in own proper space. The 

 stables, it is true, are brought into some- 

 what greater prominence than might have 

 been the case had they been built as sepa- 

 rate structures and each located behind its 

 own house. This, however, is no valid ob- 

 jection to the scheme, since, in the plan 

 adopted, the stables are very advantage- 

 ously placed, and their pleasant architec- 

 ture is surely a most delightful backing to 

 the spacious lawn before them. 



The arrangement discloses two of the 

 cardinal principles in all suburban, or, as 

 a matter of fact, in all building. These 

 are the primary value of a good plan, and 

 the almost equally important part taken in 

 house building by a good exterior elevation. 

 Now that Messrs. Bailey and Bassett have 



