Bungalows, What They Really Are 
THE LIVING-ROOM LOOKING INTO THE DINING-ROOM—BUNGALOW OF MR. LINDSAY, ALTADENA, CALIFORNIA 
fringing pines on the summit appear from the valley 
below like the ranks of an army, ever moving yet 
never advancing. The house itself is embowered in 
vines and its setting is amidst orange and olive groves. 
The spreading pepper tree shown in the foreground 
of the picture extends its arms across the broad drive¬ 
way and shades the miniature pool and water-garden 
with its trellis sheltered seat adjoining. The roof of 
the house almost unbroken, with its broad expanse 
of silvery gray showing against the mountain back¬ 
ground,the encircling veranda a mass of luxuriant rose 
and other vines and the broad sun-lit spaces, all make 
the house picturesque and attractive in the extreme. 
An inexpensive yet exceedingly comfortable bunga¬ 
low is that of Mr. Schuyler Cole at Colegrove, Los 
Angeles County, California. The exterior is so 
screened by trees and covered with vines that but a 
faint idea can be gotten from the pictures of its size 
and general effect. The plan, however, will show the 
measurements. The arrangement is typical, the 
detail and finish simple in the extreme. The com¬ 
forts and conveniences provided, however, are all that 
are usually found in much more pretentious houses 
and the sanitary appliances all that could be desired. 
The view given of Mr. Benj. F. Thurston’s si dehill 
bungalow on West Bellefountaine Street, Pasadena, 
shows a very typical adaptation of the Far East- 
ern idea to local conditions. The house is of 
frame, the exterior cemented on metal lath. The 
foundations, chimneys, and porch column work 
all being of boulders from the bed of the near-by 
mountain stream. The wide veranda faces the west, 
on which side the most shelter from the sun is usually 
provided. Extensive and beautiful views are ob¬ 
tained from this porch both up the Arroyo Seco 
canon with the foothills and mountains beyond, and 
down over the Los Angeles hills to the Pacific 
Ocean. The wing at the rear of the house which 
extends at an angle from the main building contains 
the kitchen conveniences properly located so that 
all odors are carried away from the house, as the 
trade-winds blow from the southwest. The house 
is a new one; given one year, or at most, two, and the 
growth of vines, shrubs, etc., will so enfold it as to 
make it hardly possible to recognize in it the same 
house herewith shown. 
The bungalowbuilt for Mrs. D. H.Girouard at Alta- 
dena, California, is located near the top of the long 
heavy grade of the mesa which slopes from the Sierra 
Madre mountains down to Pasadena, some five miles 
away. The house faces the south, thus securing to the 
principal rooms, unobstructed, the magnificent views 
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