Number 6 
Dr. Hall’s log cabin at Sharron, Massachusetts, cost about one hundred dollars, but returns more in comfort and recreation than a 
hundred times as expensive 
house 
The Kind of a Summer Home to Build 
THINGS YOU SHOULD PLAN FOR IN YOUR VACATION HOUSE—FEATURES THAT BRING 
COMFORT AND ECONOMICAL CONSIDERATIONS —MODERN IDEAS FOR CAMPS 
BY A Y M A R Embury, II 
Photographs by Mary H. Northend 
A AMERICAN country houses are 
very distinctly of two types — 
the one suited to all the year round 
use where a certain amount of cere¬ 
mony is always observed and where 
one feels one’s best clothes to be an 
essential — at least on Sundays; the 
other essentially a lounging place 
where old clothes are the rule, “call¬ 
ing” is an unknown quantity and com¬ 
fort rather than appearance is the 
thing to be most thought of. Of 
course there are a great many subur¬ 
ban places where the small informal 
type of house is used for all year round 
occupancy; likewise there are a great 
many summer cottages so-called, used 
The Haynes bungalow is finished with exposed framing 
stained gray 
for life quite as formal and cere¬ 
monious as any in the city; the New¬ 
port group will at once recur to the 
minds of those who read this. This 
last is a group of tremendous country 
houses, some of which are really pal¬ 
aces, whose owners affect to call them 
cottages; in them one could be about 
as free and unrestrained in costume as 
in the foyer of a theater or the lobby 
of a big hotel. Even among the very 
wealthy this type of house is no longer 
being built, for the nation as a whole 
is coming to prefer simplicity to mag¬ 
nificence, and comfort to display. 
Perhaps the most important thing 
of all about the exterior of a summer 
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