A house and its floor plans, showing provision for a sleeping-porch adjoining two of the bedrooms, in addition to the glazed-in porch 
on the first floor 
Building a House with a Sleeping-porch 
A GROUP OF HOMES THAT HAVE BEEN BUILT WITH THIS MODERN AID TO 
RIGHT LIVING—SOME OF THE STRUCTURAL DETAILS THAT HAVE PROVEN BEST 
by Maurice M. Feustmann 
Illustrations from the work of Scopes & Feustmann and E. T. Coleman, architects 
T HE reasonableness of the sleeping-porch as a feature in 
country house planning having been firmly established, it 
may be assumed that a brief description of a group of moderate 
cost cottages erected in the village of Saranac Lake, and possess¬ 
ing such porches, may prove of interest to prospective home build¬ 
ers in general. While these cottages" were designed primarily to 
house patients suffering from diseases of the chest and throat, 
the principles involved are applicable to the planning of any 
home, the surroundings of which will permit the incorporating 
of one or more sleeping-porches. Nor are the uses of the latter 
narrowed down to the purposes just mentioned. As an accessory 
to the sick-»room where the convalescent may spend the greater 
part of the day and even some of the milder nights, the sleeping- 
porch must surely appeal strongly to the family physician as a 
valuable adjunct to medical treat¬ 
ment in a variety of cases. To those 
who know the pleasures of camp life 
and of sleeping under canvas or in a 
lean-to, the sleeping-porch will ap¬ 
pear as an easy mode of continuing that health-giving pleasure 
amidst the home surroundings. To the commuter of long city 
hours and moderate income, the sleeping-porch offers an invest¬ 
ment bringing the large returns in the form of refreshing slum¬ 
bers and of renewed vigor for the tasks of the next day. When 
the sleeping-porch assumes more generous proportions, anywhere 
from ten by sixteen feet and over, then the uses are extended to 
those of an outdoor sitting-room or children’s playroom. Here 
we have pleasant suggestions of greater privacy and much more 
freedom from interruption than the usual downstairs piazza can 
possibly afford. 
A sleeping-porch, to give the greatest possible service, should 
possess as many as possible of the following essentials: accessi¬ 
bility from two bedrooms and, if possible, from the hall; freedom 
from drafts; least possible shading 
of room from which it is accessible; 
greatest possible comfort in the way 
of accessories; pleasing external ap¬ 
pearance. 
When the sleeping-porch occupies a free-standing wing as here, sliding sashes should be provided 
may be left without them 
at either end, but ordinarily the whole side 
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