HOUSE AND GARDEN 
46 
July, 1914 
Concrete Needs No Upkeep 
The walls of the concrete home never need painting or repairs. 
Time and the elements may do their worst; concrete grows 
only stronger with age. The concrete home has a substantial 
look; shows the permanency of its construction, whatever the 
architectural design. And the adaptability of concrete makes 
it available not only for the house itself, but to improve and 
beautify the surrounding grounds. 
UNIVERSAL 
PORTLAND 
CEMENT 
is excellent for all concrete work. Its strength is high; its 
uniformity is secured by constant testing. Ask your dealer for 
Universal. The following books contain much information of 
interest to home builders and farmers. 
Concrete in the Barnyard. ________ Free 
Small Farm Buildings of Concrete - - - - Price 25 cents 
The Concrete House and its Construction - - Price $1.00 
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AN INCH OR MORE THICK with all edges and corners rounded WITHOUT 
JOINTS OR CRACKS. More carefully made than most fine china dishes; GUARANTEED AGAINST 
BREAKING or CRACKING. The sanitary permanence, utility and beauty; the ECONOMY IN ICE 
CONSUMPTION (due to the FIVE INCH THICK SOLIDLY INSULATED WALLS) recommend 
Made in many sizes 
Special ones to order 
Most efficient direct 
system of circulation 
them to those seeking the best. 
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Creating an American Style 
of Architecture 
(Continued from page 20) 
size so that, whether presided over by mis¬ 
tress or maid, they make for economy of: 
time and work and worry. 
Two features have gradually developed 
in American houses to a degree that makes, 
them typical in almost every section: the 
front stoop or veranda where people sit 
and watch what goes on in the street, or 
the neighbor's yard; and tbe back door- 
yard held sacred to garbage and ash cans, 
clothes lines and rubbish heaps. This 
builder is by no means alone in his war om 
the ugly American back yard, but be is 
absolutely relentless, and scarcely less so in 
regard to front porches. By the plan of 
his houses he would foster a more refined 
and lofty ideal of home life, curbing the 
idle, vulgar curiosity insensibly nourished 
by constant sight and sound of neighbors; 
and passersby, knitting each family group- 
into a closer social unit. His front door is. 
but a formal entrance, giving a sense of 
privilege to one who passes within. With 
the kitchen entrance at or near the front, 
so arranged as to he wholly unobtrusive, 
there is an inducement to develop the once 
wholly abandoned space at the rear of the 
house. In these houses an open court or 
a roofed arcade supplants the front porch, 
and a walled-in garden with vine-covered 
arbor, shrubs and beds of flowers gives a. 
sense of seclusion and intimacy. 
San Diego, where Mr. Gill has labored 
longest, presents in interesting sequence 
the stages of evolution in his work. In 
Los Angeles and its many suburbs and 
elsewhere in California one crosses more 
and more frequently the unmistakable 
trail of this earnest genius who goes about 
the business of house-building with the 
passionate zeal of a reformer. Laborer’s; 
cottage, town house, suburban villa, apart¬ 
ment house, church, school, one equally 
with the other is to him a pulpit for 
preaching his gospel of simplicity. If he 
lias any preference, it is perhaps for the 
building of a girls’ school, believing that 
as the girl is bent so the woman is inclined, 
and that the woman, through the home, is 
the supreme social influence. 
To refuse absolutely to build a frame¬ 
house, to abandon conventional arrange¬ 
ment, to hold rigidly to an ideal of sim¬ 
plicity in an age when extravagance and 
artificiality are rampant, to do this even at 
considerable cost in popularity and mate¬ 
rial prosperity requires courage and a 
large faith in one’s ideal. 
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