Vol. XXVI—No. 5 
November, 1914 
“Wee House” follows no one particular style of architecture. In its ancestry is a little of the Norman farmhouse, a trace of the Pennsylvania Colonial, 
a dash of Georgian and a good deal of the small English country home of to-day 
Homes that Architects Have Built for Themselves 
THE RESIDENCE OF EDMUND C. EVANS AT ARDMORE, PA., IS AN EXAMPLE OF THE 
DWELLING WITH ITS BACK TO THE PUBLIC—ITS PROBLEMS AND THEIR SOLUTION 
ry Barton F. Thurston 
\7 ARIETY is the spice of life. This truism we willingly ad- 
* mit. Variety is also the spice of architecture. That we 
admit if we stop to think about it. Well-mannered architecture, 
that does what you expect it to do, of course we must have, just 
as we must have well-mannered people about us if the wheels of 
social or business life are to run smoothly. But good manners 
do not necessarily imply flat and arid conventionality of behavior, 
and it is always vastly refreshing to find people who can shake off 
all the trammels of rigid convention without transgressing the 
canons of good breeding. Just so, in matters architectural, it is a 
truly grateful thing to find a building where the bounds of fixed 
types have been gracefully overstepped in reaching a result of 
combined distinction and comeliness. 
Such a place is “Wee House,” Ardmore. It belongs to no one 
particular type of architecture, but the lines of its descent are 
mixed. In its make-up there is a little of the Norman farm¬ 
house, a little of the early Pennsylvania barn, a dash of Georgian 
here and there, a good deal of the small English country house of 
to-day, a trace of the modern French country seat, and a sunny 
note of old Pompeian ornament—all fitly joined together in one 
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