January. 1912 
HOUSE AND GARDEN 
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An excellent modification of the type shown in Fig. 3. A far better house has been secured here by 
the extension of the kitchen to the rear, and it has also provided space on the second floor for a 
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framing and the second chimney. 
When a house plan approaches 
the size of Fig. 4, however, it is 
usually felt that a service stairway 
is a necessity. Fig. 5 shows an 
adaptation of the same scheme, 
embodying this feature and attain¬ 
ing, incidentally, a complete cross 
draught for the kitchen. The den 
has been sacrificed to the addition¬ 
al staircase and a pantry, while 
the rear entrance is brought con¬ 
veniently near to the inside cellar 
stairs. 
If still more space be required 
we come back once more to a per¬ 
fect rectangle, as shown in Fig. 6. 
house of this type would cost little if any 
more to build than the more complex 
area indicated in Fig. 5, for here again 
there is but one chimney and only the 
four necessary exterior angles. If the 
home-builder will constantly keep in 
mind, when preparing his tentative plans, 
that additional exterior angles in most 
cases increase the cost of the house out 
of all proportion to their advantages, and 
that one of the most important factors 
in successful planning is economy in 
chimneys, he will be far more likely to 
suggest a plan that will come somewhere 
near his available appropriation. 
In order to point out more clearly the 
relation between actual house plans and 8^*'^ space for pantry and second staircase 
the accompanying diagrams, three house plans are 
illustrated herewith, both floors being shown. In 
the house at the top of this page it will be readily 
seen that the plan of the first floor in the main con¬ 
forms to the type illustrated by Fig. 3, although Mr. 
Embury has used two chimneys in this plan in order 
to get the living-room fireplace in the middle of the 
outside wall. 
In the plans at the bottom of this page Mr. Sum¬ 
merville has worked out a particularly ingenious 
arrangement along the lines of Fig. i. By turning 
the living-room around so that its longer axis cen¬ 
ters on the opening from the hall, he has made this 
room larger and has given it more pleasing propor¬ 
tions. Here, too, a second chimney has been found 
desirable. 
The Hollingsworth & Bragdon first floor plan 
above is almost identical with the arrangement in¬ 
dicated in Fig. 6, with the addition once more of a 
second chimney and the transposing of the two front 
rooms. 
In looking over a large number of plans one 
may at first glance fail to identify many of 
these with the types here set forth. The pres¬ 
ence of closets, offsets, inglenooks, bays and like 
features tend to hid the essentials. On an ir¬ 
regular plot, or where unusual conditions of other 
kinds govern the design, the plan necessarily will 
often indicate radical departures from these types, 
but that is the exception. Reading beneath all 
the minor details he will And, I think, that these 
rough sketches form the basis of most plans. For 
this reason they will, perhaps, be of some service in 
indicating how to secure a start. 
fourth room and brings back the square 
Fhis arrangement is a very slight modification of Fig. 6, although the locations of the 
four corner rooms have been transposed. Hollingsworth & Bragdon, architects 
A particularly skilful modification of the type shown in Fig. 1. The living-room, 
it will be noticed, is turned about. F. M. Summerville, architect 
