The House and Its Site 
any particular locality. This, broadly stated, and 
applicable espec ally to this latitude, with modi¬ 
fication for some locations, is as follows: Open 
the living and principal bedrooms to the sun, that 
is, from the east to the southwest, and regulate the 
kitchens, offices and minor rooms to the west to 
northeast. The reason for this is obvious. The 
major rooms have not only the cool breeze of the 
summer but also the warm sun of winter, and are 
protected from the cold and driving northwest 
winds of the latter season by the position of the 
minor rooms. 
Now, when it is considered how special conditions 
of site may work against even this broad law; how 
conditions of prospect may complicate and seek to 
nullify it, and how it becomes necessary to weigh and 
balance all these conflicting factors, it is plain that 
no general rule will or can be made to apply. 
In the necessary absence, then, of any general 
law, it may be well to show, by illustration, some 
solutions that have been arrived at under certain 
given conditions; some fittings to site, with its 
attendant factors, and the reasons therefor; not as 
models hut as signboards pointing a way to similar 
considerations. 
These illustrations are of houses designed and 
built by the author of this article and architects of 
his acquaintance, and are selected as examples of 
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