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IF YOU ARE GOING TO 
Remember that Patios and Loggias Will Bring the Garden 
Indoors and Extend the House into the Garden 
MARY FANTON ROBERTS 
BUILD 
P IONEER days, long ex¬ 
tended in America, when 
garden parties would have 
been a perilous pastime, 
seem to have engendered in 
our consciousness a settled 
determination to live in¬ 
doors regardless of environ¬ 
ment. Particularly in the 
country does youth as well 
as age sit in sad dim rooms 
during lovely twilight hours. 
In the city, we prefer to 
shut ourselves up in the 
theatre or in dancing res¬ 
taurants. But as a nation 
we certainly do not flock to 
the country on every occa¬ 
sion as do Paris and Lon¬ 
don, on the Seine, on the 
Thames, filling up every 
grass plot in every di¬ 
rection for miles. 
Of course we remember 
that in our early adventur¬ 
ous days here, a man’s home 
was his barricade, and even 
fifty years ago an evening 
stroll over the Montana 
prairies was taken with a 
cartridge belt and a knife. 
The American porch was 
the opening wedge to out¬ 
door life. In Colonial days 
it was just an elaborate 
In a formal garden, to 
create the background for a 
pool and the end of a view, 
one might erect this type of 
loggia, by Alfred Geijfert 
approach to the front en¬ 
trance, a classic hood that 
gave an air, with a seat on 
either side of the last wide 
stone step. One of the very 
first porches running across 
the entire front of the house 
was built in an old Dedham 
place in 1782. But not so 
much earlier, in 1676, the 
doorway of the Paul Revere 
house bears as little rela¬ 
tion to the outside world as 
would a stockade. The 
fronts of those old 17th 
Century houses were built 
for protection, and carry 
no engaging social atmos¬ 
phere. 
But with the greater 
safety of living in more 
established conditions, came 
the freedom of the porch. 
On the Colonial plantation 
dwellings it was wide and 
deep and high, with fine 
Greek pillars for the sup¬ 
port. On the New England 
Colonial house it was shal¬ 
low, often inset into the 
house, with Doric columns 
and pilasters. Then it 
slipped away to the back of 
the house and became al- 
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A simple Italian loggia of 
stucco or stone would 
enhance both formal and 
i nformal gardens, by A If red 
Geijfert 
An air of ruined cloister pervades this design for a 
Gothic loggia by Alfred Geijfert. The house, of course, 
would have the same kind of architecture 
The spirit of old Spanish architecture is found in this 
patio, in the home of Henry W. Schultz, Pasadena, Cal. 
Elmer Gray, architect 
