HOUSE AND GARDEN 
January, igi2 
The family side of the house must have privacy first of all. The 
Morgan house is typical of an English scheme to obtain this 
Tudor brick gains in attractiveness as the years go. The Sims house 
near Philadelphia exemplifies this. Cope & Stewardson, architects 
more substantial than it really is. 
The English, Scotch or Italian 
stuccoed houses are built of brick 
or stone. It is, however, a some¬ 
what harmless pretense, and 
economy may well warrant it. 
The stone house may be wholly 
charming or quite repellant, de¬ 
pending largely on how simple 
it is and how largely nature is 
allowed to beautify it (I am 
speaking of simple homes now, 
not of cut-stone j^alaces). Brick 
is the material which more uni¬ 
versally and longer than any 
other has stood the test of time’s 
judgment; and of all bricks that 
which has best stood the test is 
the common red brick with va¬ 
ried colors and textures that are 
the natural product of the kiln. 
During all its great period of brick building England has set 
its stamp of approval on the red brick. Dutch influence intro¬ 
duced many interesting expressions of brickwork, varied bonds, 
diapers, rubbed 
mouldings in belt 
courses and chim¬ 
neys, but through 
all the plain brick 
wall of good red 
brick, well laid and 
well bonded, bas 
held its place as a 
method of building 
at once simple, 
beautiful and eco¬ 
nomical. For this 
reason I b e 1 i e v e 
strongly in the use 
of common brick 
for our country 
houses. 
There remains of 
the four I named, 
concrete. This is 
practically a mod¬ 
ern material, at all events all reinforced forms of concrete. In 
appearance it is a stucco wall, with some possibilities which the 
stucco has not, namely, a sur¬ 
face as hard and durable as the 
best stones, which can be cut 
and hammered as stone can be. 
Alore than that it can be treated 
in a unique way when it is still 
green, for then a brush and 
water will serve to give it tex¬ 
ture and reveal the interest of 
its component parts. 
These four, then, are the 
simple materials, and because 
wood is perishable and inflam¬ 
mable, and, of the other three, 
brick is the most generally 
available material, I think it 
should always be considered 
when the material of the house 
is under discussion. There are 
few places in the country where 
brick can even be imagined as 
out of place, because there are few where clay and sand do not 
exist. Just as brick may be always entitled to consideration so 
may English precedence be entitled to come first. Yet in this 
broad and varied 
country it would be 
absurd to claim 
that English prece¬ 
dent should always 
govern. The Span¬ 
ish set their stamp 
on the coast, and, 
working along the 
lines of the Span¬ 
ish Renaissance in 
material that was 
local and character¬ 
istic, they produced 
a type that gave 
Mr. Bertram Good- 
hue a chance to 
show how com¬ 
pletely charming, 
and home-like as 
well, the white, flat 
roofed concrete 
Santa Barabara.) At 
The English precedent does not necessarily enforce rigid limits. 
This house combines other features. W. G. Rantoul, architect 
A house built on English lines showing Georgian influence but not bound by the formality one 
usually expects to find with the type. McManus house, St. Louis. Cope & Stewardson, 
architects 
house might be. (The Gillespie house at 
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