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society, stimulating the poorer 
inhabitants to become tenants 
on the principle that each rent 
owner has a possibility of be¬ 
coming a sharer in the com¬ 
mon project. The amusement 
side in out-of-door recreation 
places renders the locality of 
still more attraction. 
In this country there are 
various community settlements, 
but they only approximate 
the English condition. There 
is the much discussed Forest 
Hill Gardens, for instance, de¬ 
veloped by the Sage Founda¬ 
tion. Here the social-economic 
aspect is no longer apparent, 
but a decidedly attractive sub¬ 
urban home center has been 
formed. 
At Rose Valley, Pa., a com¬ 
pany sold lots in the attempt to 
establish an arts and crafts 
center, and much of the prop¬ 
erty was to be bought by those 
who sought the ideal working 
conditions for handicraftsmen. 
The practical side of this ven¬ 
ture failed, but dilettante craftsmen have made a 
suburb out of the community. 
On the economic side examples of work alon 
to be found in 
The rear of the house shown at the bottom of page 376 and at the left of the first illustration. The projecting roof, large, 
deep paved porch, and large concrete pillars are elements in combination making a decidedly attractive, inviting home 
delightful 
the Westinghouse community 
near 
these lines are 
Pittsburgh, 
the 
the National Cash Register colony near Dayton, Ohio, and 
Acme White Lead Works near Detroit. 
What has been done along lines of community dwelling has 
had an influence in the neighborhood of Philadelphia. In this 
delightful environment for suburban homes, minds have been 
at work planning communities where simply the plan was 
treated as a unit and there was nothing done as to the life. 
Among other striking examples is the development at Cresheim 
Valley, the work of Durhing, Okie & Zeigler. 
But whatever the development work may be, and granting its 
attractiveness, many individuals have the objection that a com¬ 
munity is not an individual home. Common parks, common 
gardens, and common playgrounds may be all very well, if the 
In keeping with the Colonial suggestion of the exterior, most of the bedrooms are 
fitted with Colonial reproductions 
The dining-room of the house above makes good use of a paper with soft gray 
design. This is duplicated in the living-room 
In the living-room of this house the mantel consists of a simple molding treatment 
of cornice without carving. The combination with the brick is effective 
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