HOtiM gA rDEN 
This stone and plaster house, with tile roof, is so planned as to give all important rooms 
the water view 
Canvas stretched over a wood; frameworktforms the walls] 
of this California tent house 
This Garden City home will appear to greater advantage 
when the vines and shrubs tie it to its site 
An open terrace joins the two covered porches on this 
shingled house at Douglass Manor 
U„||« nf solid lovs are bv no means cheap to build 
Whether of plaster, painted shingles, or clapboards as here, a white house harmonizes 
best of all with foliage 
Southern California has developed a very simple and honest 
type of low-cost bungalows 
This summer home in the Thousand Islands almost cove 
entire area of its site 
laid in Flemish bond, 
ge, architect 
A glazed-in part of the porch forms a winter sun-room on this 
Colonial house in Nutley, N. J. 
One seldom sees modern houses built along the lines 
of those dignified old mansions of the South 
Those who have tried say a real old house is greater 
sport tba» , » a new one 
The symmetrical two-story bay windows are unusual 
with a gambrel roof. Lawrence Buck, architect 
Plaster houses are substantial, warm, attractive and cost little 
for up-keep. Ellicott & Emmart, architects 
TYPES OF AMERICAN COUNTRY HOUSES OfJoUS STYLES, SIZES, COSTS AND MATERIALS 
