June, 1915 
HOUSE AND GARDEN 
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The type of moderate-priced house for the seashore, where the environment is 
that of sand beaches, pine woods and, in immediate surroundings, a well- 
developed locale. Frank R. Watson, architect 
forms are so essentially adapted to the terms of simple con¬ 
struction that it is only in the more elaborate summer homes 
that a wide departure is made towards English or French 
prototypes. 
Whether the construction be of wood, brick or stone will 
Porches are necessities. Fit them up so that you can live on them and eat and sleep 
panacea for the rainy day 
depend upon local labor conditions. Wood is always the cheap¬ 
est structural material, but every year the proportion of brick 
and stone houses increases as the need for more permanent and 
substantial types of houses is more keenly felt. It is only in 
remote districts, where labor is cheap and abundant, and some 
is to be had on the building site, that this form of construction 
bears great cbance of being used. But the charming old stone 
farm houses of Colonial days are far too exquisite not to wish 
that more of our modern houses were built like them. 
In planning the vacation home the vital need to be kept in 
if you will. They are the 
The mountain home can be either of stone or logs, 
or a combination of the two, thus taking on the 
protective coloring of its surroundings 
mind is for fresh air, and every breeze 
that blows must be taken advantage of. 
The living-room sacrifices its import¬ 
ance to the porch, which cannot be too 
spacious or too carefully placed in rela¬ 
tion to the prevailing winds and the 
finest views. Practically every phase 
of porch development is interesting to 
the summer home builder; the spread¬ 
ing and luxurious porches of the 
East Indian bungalow, the two-storied 
porches of old Southern mansions, the 
rainy-day porch with its protection 
from the wet, the dining-porch where 
the al fresco meal is an unalloyed 
pleasure. 
In the summer home the need for 
privacy is less felt than in the more 
formal suburban house. To be able to 
plan one's porch where the utmost of 
air and view may be obtained without 
having to consider the formality of 
afternoon calls or the intrusion of un¬ 
welcome guests, makes greatly for the 
comfort of the house. .So in the sum¬ 
mer home there is more opportunity to adopt the bungalow type 
with its wide and spacious porches. Verandas that encircle the 
house have many advantages. Their different sides make them 
comfortable at all hours of the day, according to the direction 
of the breeze and the position of the sun. Where the family is 
of good size or there is much entertaining there is usually a 
desire on the part of some to seek seclusion from the noise or 
gossip without going indoors, and with this type it is only neces¬ 
sary to withdraw to another part of the porch. 
The second-floor porch is now-a-days generally used for a 
