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House & Garden 
The house that was, with its plans 
■—an example of one of the most 
ordinary and commonplace varie¬ 
ties of the genus Americanus. It 
was the architect’s point of departure 
The first and second floor plans 
of the house that is. The shaded 
portion indicates the area of the 
original house, ivith nothing left but 
the shell and two interior walls 
The house that is—a place of pleas¬ 
ant domestic feeling, expressing all 
the simplicity of early Connecticut 
homes. Cameron Clark, of Clark & 
Arms, architect of the remodeling 
acteristics of the architectural mind, and 
the architect’s real interest in the project 
comes from the fact that he is working on 
a thing which will ultimately be a credit 
to him, instead of being obliged to expend 
his efforts on makeshifts and compromises. 
There may be some cause for conjec¬ 
ture, then, on the rarity of progressive 
building projects. Alterations and re¬ 
modeling are frequently enough seen, 
especially in this era of high costs for new 
structures, but in surprisingly few instances 
do the plans anticipate future additions 
and developments. 
The answer to this must be found in 
the psychological complexes peculiar to 
architects’ clients, to lack of vision and 
imagination, and most potent of all to the 
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