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doing pretty much 
all of the initial 
building, have set a 
minimum valuation 
pi) $7,000) On a 
house. Values go 
up, however, to 
$35,000, though on 
some parts of the 
property the mini- 
mum price of a 
house is $5,000. It 
will be seen from 
these facts that the 
concrete houses 
being constructed 
there do not belong 
to the cheap grade 
at all. The house must measure up to a certain minimum 
standard, or it is not permissible to build it. In order to 
insure a high grade construction, the land companies them- 
selves have undertaken a great deal of building and their 
houses may very well be considered as models of what con- 
crete construction may and should be. 
The location is a sandy one, and the houses are of incon- 
siderable height. “The foundation is secured by digging 
trenches in the sand to a sufficient depth and filling these 
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with concrete. ‘This is a simple and adequate procedure. 
Upon this foundation is reared the frame of the house. 
This consists of wood, to which is attached a covering of 
galvanized wire netting. Upon this surface the concrete, 
or rather the cement mortar, is spread. By this means it 
is possible to make the wall comparatively thin. The 
netting is sufficiently imbedded to enable it to get a good hold 
upon the ‘“‘stucco”’ of mortar. The roof is constructed of 
red vitrified tiling. The tinting of the exterior walls can 
be modified to suit 
one’s taste or the 
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roundings. 
We may look on 
these structures as 
one class of con- 
crete houses. Ce- 
ment construction 
in ‘one storm or. a 
number has un- 
doubtedly come to 
stay. It is well, then, 
to consider the 
architect ural 
and other disposi- 
tions of the ma- 
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3—A simple treatment is appropriate 
Fig. 6—Built after the same plan as Fig. 5 
April, 1911 
terial as a problem 
by itself. In other 
words, a _ cement 
house is to be 
planned especially 
with a view to the 
material of  con- 
struction rather 
than with the de- 
sign of fitting in 
with older ideas 
connected with 
stone, brick and 
wooden types of 
buildings. Use the 
material in the way 
which will give it a 
natural appearance, 
free from imitation of other building materials. 
Thus, consider Fig. 1. There is no attempt made in the 
treatment of the exterior surface to make it appear like 
something else. The house is a cement house. There is 
no attempt to hide the fact; and why should there be? The 
ceilings are high on the first floor, and there is much light 
and air. On the second floor the windows are particularly 
large. Li alg 
In Fig. 2 we have the bungalow construction. 
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Fig. 5—Second floor plan 
eight rooms, besides bath and laundry. There are two par- 
tially inclosed porches at the front, to right and to left. A 
third porch, between these, but more to the rear, affords 
entrance to the house itself. One enters at once into a large 
living-room (17x26 feet.) The dining-rocm (15x23 1-2 
feet) lies just back of the right-hand porch. In the.cor- 
responding position on the left is the principal bedroom. 
Back of it is the bath and three other bedrooms. Back of the 
dining-room are pantry, kitchen, laundry and servants’-room. 
The general plan 
resembles a letter 
H, the living-room 
being the cross- 
piece. The serv- 
ants’-room, which 
lies on the inside of 
the H, is opposite 
the last of the fam- 
ily bedrooms, but 
the wall of the serv- 
ants’-room is not 
pierced spam 
window. Its beauty 
of appearance may 
be judged from the 
picture. 
