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HO USE & GARDEN 
From English country houses of 
the farmhouse type has been 
drawn the inspiration for this 
home. It is at once simple, pic¬ 
turesque and convenient in 
design 
In the plan the garage comes to 
the front affording a quiet treat¬ 
ment of the property to the rear 
AN ENGLISH HOUSE 
FOR AN AMERICAN 
SETTING 
Caretto, Forster & King, architects 
HE client had his American setting^-which, 
by the way, is White Plains, N. Y.—and he 
wanted to build on it an English type of 
house. So he gave the architects full sway to 
design a house as they would their own, both as 
to design, plan, layout and use of materials. 
The only restriction was to keep the building at 
a cost of approximately $10,000. 
For effect, the architects are relying upon the 
artistic arrangement of the building material, 
the assembling in pleasing proportions of brick 
Before the house is to be a court 
surrounded by a wall. The gate 
trellis of heavy beams will be an 
interesting detail 
and stucco for the exterior walls, and a mottled 
grey and purple slate with rounded valleys for 
the roof, blending in a pleasing composition as 
a whole. The treatment of the building does not 
call for a moulding, and there are no cornices. 
The eaves with stucco soffits overhang giving a 
long interesting shadow on the building. The 
exterior wood is of oak, cut out of solid mate¬ 
rial, hand adzed and left natural. Copper lead¬ 
ers and gutters lend color and effect. 
There zvill be no window or door trim on the 
interior. The doors are batten hung on wooden 
bucks, old English thumb latch hardware is also 
used. The plaster is sand finish. 
