House and Garden 
CHATEAU JOSSELYN. VIEW FROM THE RIVER ROAD 
equally he present in a 
work of the most def¬ 
inite archaeological sort. 
Such, to take an ex¬ 
ample in a French man¬ 
ner, is the Townsend 
House at Washington, 
D. C., by Carrere & 
Hastings, or, to take one 
in an English style is 
the country house by 
Cram, Wentworth & 
Goodhue. On the other 
hand we must hear in 
mind that a work filled 
with archaeological ac¬ 
curacy may be quite 
devoid of style in the 
truer, higher sense. 
But this high quality 
of style is after all not 
the sort of style in which 
our editor’s questioner 
is interested. He is 
concerned with some¬ 
thing far less subtle. 
Is his home to recall 
a Tudor manor, ; 
Tuscan villa, a chateau by the Loire, or a Virginia 
homestead ? 1 he world is all before him where to 
choose. Unfortunately he demands guidance as to 
his choice and insists that this guidance shall he based 
on fundamental principles and not on mere fashion 
or personal inclination. Now while I am convinced 
that this question is not a profitable one, and that it 
gives rise to negative results, 1 am willing to make 
some inquiry for possible answers. Let us ask then 
what things we might suppose would influence the 
style of a house. Here certainly are some of them: 
a. The kind of country in which the house is to 
he built; flator rolling, mountainous, wooded, 
or open. 
b . Neighboring buildings, especially if of a definite 
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c. Local materials and traditional ways of build- 
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l l. 1 be owner’s individuality and mode of life. 
e. The architect’s personality, training and pre¬ 
dilections. 
THE SITE OF THE HOUSE 
The site unquestionably should have a very great 
influence upon the plan of the house, as Professor 
Osborne has most lucidly explained in the first 
article of this series, but it seems to have far less 
influence on the choice of style than one would im- 
A COUNTRY RESIDENCE Cram, Wentworth & Goodhue, Architects 
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