July, 1923 
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The house that will be—a coun¬ 
try residence of generous pro¬ 
portions and quaint rambling 
plan. It is a jar departure 
from the original house, and an 
expansioti of the present house 
A commodious plan, including three sleeping porches 
and five baths, has been developed for the house that 
will be, the shaded indication explained above showing 
the three-stages in the evolution of the original house 
grievous and besetting American weakness 
of impatience. Our impatience, perhaps, 
in accomplishing great feats of industrial 
production and the like, is one of our 
strong points, but in progressive building 
impatience is fatal to the proper carrying 
out of the project. Financiers may deal 
in futures on the stock market but are 
profoundly skeptical, or, at best, unin¬ 
spired, when it comes to dealing in futures 
in architecture. 
Most people are unhappy if they cannot 
have their entire house all at once, and 
they more often than not prefer to have a 
complete house which represents the jetti¬ 
son of every idea they originally wished 
to see in execution than to wait a few years 
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The first floor plan of the house 
that will be is shown with its 
garden layout, and it is still pos¬ 
sible to trace the evolution. This 
garden designed by Mrs. Clark 
