AMERICAN HOMES AND GARDENS 
August, 1911 
A Medel Settlement of 
Workingmen's Homes 
By Paul Thurston 
A group of small houses built after one plan, and showing the value in the use of different kinds of material for their construction 
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pp HE village of Mayfair, just outside of the 
city of Chicago, is most fortunate in hay- 
ing two men as enterprising as Messrs. 
Sorensen & Olson, who have laid out 
several squares of land and have planned 
and built an interesting group of houses, 
some of which are illustrated in this 
How best to make the settlement beautiful has 
careful consideration. One of the rules 
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been a subject of 
of the village is that the front line and the division lines of 
each of the properties shall be divided only by a closely 
clipped hedge of privet. Every encouragement is given by 
the promoters to the land-owners to maintain the proper 
A brick and stucco house, cost $3,400 
keeping of their home grounds, so that the beauty of each 
street, which has been so earnestly sought, may be attained. 
There are no monotonous and depressing rows of brick 
and mortar in this group of little dwellings, but dainty in- 
dividual houses are there, which, in time, will be covered 
with growing vines, thereby enhancing and creating a more 
effective appearance than at present obtains. A feature of 
peculiar interest is that only one floor plan has been used 
in the construction of these little dwellings, the point of 
distinction of each of the houses being found in the use 
which has been made of the various kinds of materials em- 
ployed in their construction. This is due not so much, 
however, to the great variety of materials which has been 
A cement stucco house, cost $3,350 
