Three Types of Houses 



Built by the Nassau Electric Lighting Company for Their Employes at Roslyn, Long Island 



By Francis Durando Nichols 



HEN the Nassau Electric Lighting Company 

 desired to provide proper homes for their 

 employees, and place them in clean and pro- 

 per surroundings, they purchased a tract of 

 land within close proximity to their plant, 

 though not too close to make the plant ever 

 evident to the dwellers who might live in their contemplated 

 houses. After the tract of land was purchased and graded, 



very inexpensive, costing from $2,100 to $3,000 cornplete. 

 This is a very low cost, and is an important feature, Ispe- 

 cially for dwellings of this character. The dignity and sim- 

 plicity of these houses are also matters to be considdired. 

 They are not unlike many of the houses seen in some the 

 quaint old New England towns. 



These features are of particular moment when one lion- 

 siders the high-priced conditions in the building trades at the 



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and the roads and 

 walks built and 

 placed in good con- 

 dition, then it was 

 decided to build the 

 houses. 



The architect se- 

 lected by the com- 

 pany to work out a 

 scheme for develop- 

 ment was Mr. Li- 

 onel Moses, II, of 

 New York. Mr. 

 Moses, after study- 

 ing the site and its 

 possibilities, decided 

 to accept the "square 

 rigged" form as be- 

 ing the best adapted 

 to meet the necessary 

 needs and to treat 

 them with the simple 

 detail of the Col- 

 onial features. 



These houses are 



I — The Plans of the Small Single House Are Excellent 



2 — The Exterior of the Small Single House Is Good 



present time. That 

 building in this coun- 

 try is now higher 

 than it has ever 

 been before Is true 

 and, to overcome it, 

 so that a man may 

 still be able to build 

 a home within his 

 means, it has de- 

 volved uppn the ar- 

 chitect to solve the 

 problem for the cli- 

 ent who wishes a 

 small house of low 

 cost and who desires 

 to build It for a 

 small amount of 

 money. In this par- 

 ticular case these 

 houses were all built 

 by the company, 

 but the same ques- 

 tion arose from the 

 economical stand- 



