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AMERICAN . HOMES) AND GARDENS 
October, Ig1I 
The old hall at Judah Rock is low ceiled and has a paneled stairway, and its walls are covered with gray paper of a Georgian medallion pattern 
to find that they had lost that prime requisite of life—the 
enjoyment of a real home. Even their former neighbors 
who had gone into the suburbs to live had them at a disad- 
vantage. ‘Those who clung to the city were tenants, more 
often than not, at the pleasure of a more or less inconsiderate 
landlord, in a more or less garish caravansary, with even 
the comforting presence of cat, dog, chick, and often child, 
denied them. In the emergency a master-mind evolved the 
co-operative apartment with its individual ownership and 
built with that great advantage—a staircase between living- 
and sleeping-rooms. But at its best living in apartments 
never could thoroughly satisfy the craving for a home. 
During the ten or fifteen years in which the private 
dwelling has been fading from the New Yorker’s_ pro- 
The new entrance hall or domed vestibule, a much more formal type than the old hall, but is one of the most striking features of the interior 
