HOUSE AND GARDEN 
416 
December, 1911 
BROOK TROUT 
BLACK BASS 
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(Continued from page 414) 
it make whether windows are in groups 
with mullions between or each a single 
rectangle fitted with small, square panes, 
or the doors round-arched with fan-lights 
or depressed-pointed with clustered 
mouldings ? 
They are of a type with gables and slop¬ 
ing roofs, the whole house under a single 
roof or with a long main ridge with in¬ 
tersecting gables disposed either formally 
or informally as the site, the plan, or the 
owner’s whim suggests. In each the gentle 
lines of silhouette seem to fit our irregular 
treatment of a countryside where, for in¬ 
stance, the long tranquil lines of the Ital¬ 
ian villas might seem unrelated. They 
must have a proper setting of formal ter¬ 
race and garden to be in their full majesty; 
but our northern type is democratic and 
seems born of the soil. It suits hillside or 
meadow, formal gardens or no gardens 
at all with equal naturalness, a sine qua 
non of a successful American type, for 
while one man likes formality, another 
does not; where one man desires a garden 
with straight paths and arbors, another 
would sow in grass with clumps of trees, 
and so it goes. 
“Northern Tradition” as a title is mis¬ 
leading in one respect. Its defense has not 
been attempted because it is traditional; 
that were an emotional reason, as, alas! 
most architectural arguments seem to be — 
misty, built on a morass of sentiment, .will 
o’ the wisps which lead to self destruction. 
But the argument is that the house should 
take its form from the materials employed 
and the constructive problem to be solved, 
all in the easiest and most natural way, the 
old, old argument of Ruskin, the “Cher- 
chez le Verite” of the Paris school, by 
which they mean tthat the most direct solu¬ 
tion of the constructive problem should 
determine the form of the result. Now, 
since the problem has been substantially 
the same in Northern Europe since the 
Middle Ages, we should test our solution 
by comparison with the persisting basic 
type there; that as it seems, our solution 
agrees with this, we may feel sure we have 
argued logically, that our type is the same 
as this, and that by so building we are 
merely continuing the “Northern Tradi¬ 
tion.” 
Some of my predecessors have argued 
that historic association should govern 
style; others that any beautiful quality 
should be adopted. Both true, but is it not 
true that we should take only what we can 
properly assimilate; that all else, be it 
beautiful beyond words, we may admire 
but must pass by, to work out our own 
solusolution with the natural use of our 
own materials? 
Look at House and Garden’s symbol in 
the circle, each side the magazine title on 
the front page; what “style” is that house ? 
Dear knows; but it does not matter. Un¬ 
consciously the magazine has adopted in 
its simplest form the Northern Tradition, 
and what is unconscious is natural, and 
what is natural is best. 
In writing to advertisers please mention House and Garden. 
