August, 19 2 3 
NEW 
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HOUS ES FOR OLD 
The Hand of the Architect Ad ay 
Not Only Design But Transform 
MATLACK PRICE 
T oday, owing to the condition of the 
building market, anything with a roof 
has possibilities as a house. Ruinous old 
farms, and dilapidated houses which have 
not even the simple dignity of most farms 
are being viewed through the eyes of imag¬ 
ination and envisioned as altered into 
charming country homes. 
Outside the architect’s problem, an alter¬ 
ation which will make a new house out of 
an old one calls for two things—imagina¬ 
tion and courage. 
Imagination, first, to see the house that 
can be evolved from the humblest and most 
unpromising old ruin, and then courage to 
buy the place and accomplish the job of 
remodeling. 
A lover of architecture in general might 
find the present high costs of building not 
an unmixed national affliction. He could 
entertain the hope that for every new house 
that isn’t built, some unsightly relic of the 
era of bad taste will be salvaged and made 
over into a house of permanent architectural 
fitness and beauty. 
Divided broadly into two main types, 
there is the alteration which seeks to en¬ 
tirely transform the old house so that the 
new one has nothing whatever in common 
with it, and the alteration which seeks to 
preserve as much as possible of the original, 
and to add to it more in size and conveni- 
The remodeling of this house has pre¬ 
served much of the local architectural 
technique of the original building, but 
has entirely altered its form. No elaborate 
details are employed to give the new house 
its rejuvenated appearance. The owner 
is H. Gregg Dauby, Chadd’s Ford, Pa. 
Three 
Alterations 
BY 
R. Brognard 
Okie 
The original house 
in solid black, the 
additions in outlhie 
show that radical 
changes were made 
in the plans, which 
practically doubled 
the size of the 
house. Two views 
of the garden house 
are on page 126 
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