AND GARDENS 29 
January, I9II 
AMERICAN HOMES 
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Fig. 1—The materials used in this house are combined in an artistic manner 
~ Houses on the Pacific Coast 
By Paul Thurston 
Kg) FAE houses to be found along the Pacific tically every known type of material is used in their 
unique and artistic forms of house build- 
ing in this country. Many of these houses 
erection. 
The construction of each of these houses is simple and 
direct, and while they are designed to meet the require- 
are no more than bungalows, but no mat- ments of the families that are to occupy them, the combina- 
ter whether they are two-story houses or tion of materials of which they are built is unusual, and 
one-story bungalows, they possess so much the manner in which these last are put together is most 
artistic merit that the enthusiasm of the Westerner is no daring and startling, but when the result is analyzed, it 
more than that of the Eastern home-seeker. will be found that the whole is most striking and beau- 
The climatic conditions of the Pacific Coast enable the  tiful. . 
architects, who provide shelters for the inhabitants, to give In-most cases there is a general tendency to treat the 
free rein to their own individual tastes, without instruc- outside of the houses with a dark stain, which is no doubt 
tions from the owners as to the design or the plan. due to the perpetual brilliancy of the sunlight, and this 
There are great possibilities, and an unlimited scope circumstance may be attributed to the seemingly universal 
permitted in the building of these houses, and prac- disposition to provide broad, well shaded porches, the 
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