HOUSE AND GARDEN 
July, 
1912 
just as he would ordinarily adapt his schemes as far as possible 
to meet the personal requirements of a client. This compromise 
was in a measure to avoid making his house “talk shop” by a too 
marked individuality, and because the treatment that would most 
strongly appeal to his personal 
fancy might not satisfy the 
tastes or needs of a prospec¬ 
tive purchaser. An architect 
must often consider the build¬ 
ing of his home from a busi¬ 
ness standpoint when making 
an investment of this charac¬ 
ter. Aside from these con¬ 
siderations the house was de¬ 
signed to meet in as direct 
and simple a manner as pos¬ 
sible the essential require¬ 
ments of the family and the 
conditions presented by the 
site. 
The lot presented some dif¬ 
ficulties as well as advan¬ 
tages, being a long, narrow 
strip of land between two 
public roads about 750 feet 
apart with a frontage of 125 
feet on each. From its east¬ 
ern front the ground is level for a distance of about 400 feet, fall¬ 
ing to a level fifty feet below, where the highway at the western 
frontage follows the course of a stream. This condition made it 
necessarv to bring the driveway from the eastern end of the lot 
and to place the house entrance to face that direction. The liv¬ 
ing-rooms were placed so as to get a western exposure and a 
glorious view from the main windows. This brought the house 
entrance and the kitchen end of the house into close relation to 
each other, a fact which gives 
a unique shape to the home. 
The position of existing trees 
as well as the topography sug¬ 
gested placing the house at 
the edge of the falling ground 
about an equal distance from 
each frontage or highway, 
and for the best exposure the 
orientation of the mam build¬ 
ing placed it at an angle with 
the adjacent party lines. The 
back building, however, was 
swung into a position paral¬ 
lel with these lines and with 
the driveway which passes it in 
approaching the house en¬ 
trance. From this driveway 
the kitchen yard is completely 
screened by a high wall, 
privacy being further as¬ 
sisted by lowering the yard 
level below that of the drive¬ 
way and grade of the house front. The location of the house at 
the edge of the ridge or falling ground brings it into interesting 
relation with the houses similarly placed on the adjoining lots, 
which instead of being in alignment appear to follow an S-shaped 
The windows in the bay are so well planned that the whole may be 
treated as a unit for decoration 
The general effect of the approach when viewed from the driveway is decidedly English: The entrance porch is inclosed by walls and the 
arched opening allows for a storm door, thus forming a convenient vestibule in winter 
