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HOUSE AND GARDEN 
June, 1915 
Distinctly a type for a pastoral region—an inexpensive farmhouse of good lines, 
with plenty of room indoors and on the porches. Alfred Hopkins, architect 
the pleasures of boating and swimming. 
The more practical considerations of 
water supply and sanitation will, after 
all, be often the actual deciding factors 
in the choice of such a site. Many an 
old farm house that is now occupied 
may be had for a nominal sum and 
with little remodeling turned into an 
attractive vacation home. There is a 
personality about some of these re¬ 
modeled farm houses that new houses 
seldom attain to, while their original 
builders were very practical people, and 
what they lack in picturesqueness of 
view is often made up for by their con¬ 
venience to high road or village. 
The ideal mountain site is much 
more difficult to find. From a practical 
standpoint it must be, first of all, ac¬ 
cessible for the procuring of supplies, 
while the first cost of building will de¬ 
pend largely upon this factor. The 
most picturesque locations and those 
with the finest outlooks are often pro¬ 
hibitive because of their inaccessibility. A situation near a stream 
or lake helps greatly to solve those vital and ever-present prob¬ 
lems of water supply and sanitation. The inclusion of a cleared 
space gives an opportunity for a small garden, but cultivated 
flowers are an intrusion upon the boundless supply provided by 
Nature. A desirable site for the seashore home would be near 
a good bathing beach and, of course, a harbor or inlet for the 
anchorage of boats. Other and more practical qualifications that 
have been outlined before may be applied here with equal force. 
In the design of the vacation house the type of construction 
and the consequent style of architecture, if we may call it such, 
I his dining-room is full of suggestions for the treatment of summer homes. Notice the unstained woodwork, the 
simple hangings and decorations. It looks cool, doesn’t it? 
sandy plains of Arizona. In the same way the former will always 
be the most appropriate type of house for the woods, while the 
latter is being used more and more as a prototype for seashore 
homes. 
A great latitude of choice is allowed the home builder in a 
pastoral country, although the Colonial farm houses built of 
wood or stone come so instinctively to mind that it is difficult 
to escape entirely their suggestion or to wish to do something 
widely divergent in style. Indeed, so many old farm houses 
have been reclaimed of late years for vacation homes that they 
have almost begun to establish a type. Then, too, the Colonial 
If the house is well sheltered, there is little neces¬ 
sity for a roofed porch; a lattice such as this is 
sufficient covering for the terrace 
will be greatly influenced by the surroundings. Just as the 
protective coloring of animals blends in with the character 
of the country in which they live, so the house should reflect 
in its materials the tone and color of its surroundings. The 
use of the materials at hand has been equally operative in 
producing the mountain log cabin and the adobe house on the 
