HOUSE AND GARDEN 
June, 1912 
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Perfectly adapted to its situation is this log cabin at Pinehurst. Indeed, no other form of structure would do half as well in this flat country of 
straight pine trees as the log cabin form 
The upper part of this house projects on the farmhouse lines and forms 
a natural porch. This is a type planned for coolness 
Native materials are the summer home builder’s first consideration. There is not much “archi¬ 
tecture” here, but this is an ideal summer cottage that appears to have grown on this rock 
house is that it should harmonize with its surroundings and 
justify by this harmony its intrusion on some beautiful natural 
location. One has instinctively a feeling of resentment at seeing 
a big square mansion of glaring color, crowning a soft wooded 
knoll or a rocky seaside point. The colors and the design of the 
house should both be made to tone in with the natural surround¬ 
ings, and the completed structure should emerge from the ground, 
rather than be set upon it. Any one who has driven through the 
lovely Shinnecock Hills will remember with pleasure the inter¬ 
esting and picturesque fashion in which the houses are disposed 
through and around these low mounds, which really are not hills 
at all, but only grass-covered sand dunes. They have been built 
to lie close to the ground and covered as they are with vines, 
tinted in soft warm colors, interrupt not at all the natural beauty 
of the landscape, but rather accentuate it. 
Another type of house which is per¬ 
fectly adapted to its situation is the log- 
cabin at Pinehurst. Although this is a 
winter and not a summer home, still the 
conditions of temporary occupancy, un¬ 
conventional life and fitness of the site 
to its surroundings make this pictur¬ 
esque house one of the same class. It 
will be readily recognized that the sandy 
soil and tall thin pines fit themselves to 
no other style of architecture so com¬ 
pletely as to this log cabin, and while 
Pinehurst has many other houses more 
expensive and perhaps, apart from their 
surroundings, better designed than this, 
there is no other which so completely 
fulfils the spirit commanded by the con¬ 
ditions of life there or by the surround¬ 
ings. 
Just as the architecture of the coun¬ 
try house is different from that of a 
permanent home so there are certain 
factors which make a somewhat differ¬ 
ent type of plan desirable. In the first 
place, since practically every guest is 
welcomed directly into the family circle, 
entrance doors opening into the living- 
room are neither uncommon nor in any 
