September, 1911 
AMERICAN HOMES AND GARDENS 
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An interesting California house which suggests the Dutch Colonial style of architecture 
A Handsome and Practical California Home 
By Charles Alma Byers 
much has been written about its bun- 
galows, that the Easterner might well be 
excused for presuming that Southern Cali- 
fornia possesses no other style of homes. 
The presumption, however, would be er- 
roneous, for the architecture of Southern 
California homes is probably of a more 
varied character than is that of any other particular locality. 
In fact, it borrows from architects everywhere, and no mat- 
ter what the style may be, it is blended into its new setting 
of semi-tropical verdure with an appropriateness that causes 
the importation to seem as if it had known no other 
environs. 
The attractive home illustrated by the accompanying 
photographs, whose architecture is a suggestion of the so- 
called Dutch Colonial, is located near Los Angeles, Cali- 
fornia, and was designed and built by Arthur Rolland Kelly, 
of that city. It contains eight principal rooms—reception- 
room, living-room, dining-room and kitchen, besides the 
hall and a screened porch on the first floor, and four 
sleeping-rooms, as well as a sleeping-porch and two bath- 
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rooms on the second floor. It is the home of F. E. Naftz- 
ger, Esq., and the approximate cost of the house was $4,500. 
The house is of substantial construction throughout, as 
is attested by its general exterior appearance, and _ its 
structural lines are particularly harmonious and pleasing. 
The irregularity of the roof lines, and absence of gable pro- 
jections, is very effective, giving the creation a distinctive in- 
dividuality rarely found in a house of this kind. The shingle 
siding is well laid, and by giving the redwood shingles a 
heavy coat of oil, with just a trace of dark russet stain, a 
very striking color scheme is produced—into which the 
natural color of the brickwork blends harmoniously. The 
old-fashioned chimney, with its gracefully curved lines, is of 
well-considered proportions, and, aided by the brickwork of 
the front steps, does much toward completing an unusually 
artistic structure. 
Among the illustrations are two detail views well worthy 
of especial mention. One shows the front entrance, the 
other the rear. In the former is illustrated an interesting 
combining of brickwork, of which the steps are formed, and 
concrete, which constitutes the pillars. The roof supported 
