The Creation of a Site 
to come clown, leaving nothing unsightly in 
view. The garden shown in the plan has not 
yet been developed and will add greatly to the 
setting of the house when completed. 
The property was developed and the house 
designed by Mr. Louis C. Hickman, archi¬ 
tect, of Philadelphia, to whom we are in¬ 
debted for the use of the plans. 
Phis example is intended to illustrate and 
supplement the papers on “Choosing a Site 
for the Home,” in the July and August issues 
of House and Garden, as are also the 
photographs of semi-detached houses shown 
on page 149 of this issue. In this latter con¬ 
nection it may be noted, as a supplementary 
principle, that where city property is too 
valuable to separate adjoining houses by at 
least thirty feet, it would be much better to 
build in solid blocks of the strictly urban 
type for the reason that if opposite windows 
are so close as to make domestic privacy well 
nigh impossible, all the advantages of the 
semi-detached type are lost while its disad¬ 
vantages are retained and magnified. 
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