HOUSE AND GARDEN 
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Mr. Smith’s home is a charmingly informal one that is based on no distinct architectural style. It is another object lesson in favor of a 
perfectly straightforward development of the plan in simple materials 
The first floor plan is exceptionally compact, 
with its simple staircase and no waste hall 
space 
THE HOME OF 
MR. RUFFIN A. SMITH 
RIVER EDGE 
NEW JERSEY 
John A. Gurd, architect. 
Lavatories are provided for two of the bed¬ 
rooms—an instance of foresight that is far 
too uncommon 
In the living-room, with its simple dark woodwork and rough, warm gray plaster walls, the paneling of the lower part of the walls merely 
by the use of vertical strips from baseboard to plate-rail, is particularly interesting 
