CONTENTS 
January, 1912 . 
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Cover Design A House at Oyster Bay, 
N. Y. Carrere & Hastings, architects 
Frontispiece: The Home of Marshail 
P. Slade, Mt. Kisco, N. Y. Charles A. 
Platt, architect 
An Old House or a New One? . 13 
By Allen W. Jackson and Jared 
• Stuyvesant 
The Tudor House for America . . 16 
By R. Clipston Sturgis 
Wood Paneling and Its Short-Cuts 19 
By Russell Fisher 
Reconnoitering for a Building Site 22 
By Margot Richards 
The Case for Hot Air Heating . . 24 
By William F. Colbert, A.B., M.D. 
Vines to Grow Indoors. 26 
By F. F, Rockwell 
A Page of Hardware Suggestions . 27 
The Uniformity of Modern Floor 
Plans.28 
By P. A. Huntington 
Lighting Fixtures Within Your 
Appropriation ....... 30 
By Katharine Newbold Birdsall 
The Casement Window Problem . . 32 
By J. Crow Taylor 
Making the Cellar Dry and Keep¬ 
ing It So.34 
By William Draper Brinckle 
Comparative Costs of Building ^Ma- 
terial.36 
By Aymar Embury, II 
Installing a Small Sewage Disposal 
Plant . . .38 
By Henry N. Ogden, C.E. 
Tiling for Use and Decoration . . 40 
By Russell F. Whitehead 
Rough or S.mooth Plaster Walls . 43 
The Naturalizing of a City Man . 44 
Two Houses from the Same PutN . 46 
Oscar C. Gottesleben, architect 
Inside the House ....... 48 
Garden Suggestions and Queries . . 5c 
Editorial .., 5^ 
HENRY H. SAYLOR, Editor j 
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