AMERICAN 
HOMES AND GARDENS 
The Old House or a New One 
By Electus D. Litchfield 
Photographs by Julian Buckley, Frank Cousins and Lloyd Baker 
FE maintenance of independent dwellings in 
our greater cities ceased, several years ago, 
to be within the means of most inhabitants. 
In this predicament the alternative of tak- 
ing an apartment in town or of settling 
somewhere in the suburbs offered itself. 
Many adopted the latter and sought homes 
in the country; but the thought of suburbanism did not 
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appeal to the majority. Instead, the city dwellers of mod- 
erate means rented apartments in the winter, and with the 
coming of summer hied themselves to hotels in the moun- 
tains or to Europe, the return of fall finding them again in 
the city—more often than not in new apartments, which 
offered relief from one or another of the disadvantages of 
the domiciles of the previous winter. 
It was not long, however, before these city folk began 
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The extensive and delightful verandas with floors of wood on the garden front of Judah Rock are connected by a terrace floor at the lawn-level 
