House and Garden 
A FACADE ADAPTED TO TYPE B-DESIGN NO. 3 
Wilson Eyre, Architect, Philadelphia 
Plans “B” are also for a city house, but a modest one, one of a row of eight to be built in Philadelphia. The house is 20 x 75, 
absolutely fireproof, built without wood and will cost $7,500, and is to rent for $75 a month. The external walls are brick, the partitions 
are hollow fireproof tile, the floors are of “Johnson system” tile spans full width of house and without any steel, the finished floors of 
asbestos tile, the doors and windows and stairs of asbestos; there is absolutely nothing to burn. 1 he stairs are enclosed and the one 
flight serves all purposes. The ground or first floor shows at A, vestibule; B, library or den; C, reception-room; F, pantry; H, kitchen; 
G, servant’s room; J, dumbwaiter (enclosed and automatic doors); E, stairs down to laundry, servants’ toilet, furnace, etc., in sub¬ 
basement; K, shows a portable platform hoist serving all the houses for moving furniture, etc. 
Second floor: N N, parlors; L, dining room; F, serving room. Third floor and fourth floor 8 bedrooms, or seven bedrooms and a 
sitting-room at R. 
Design No. 3 is well fitted to that class of house, a good, clean, plain exterior. 
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