August, 1923 
The rear of this frame 
house has been altered 
from an appearance of ac¬ 
tual squalor to one of 
livable attractiveness, and 
the transformation has been 
made without elaboration 
The transformation of 
this old house into a 
new one affords an 
excellent example of 
what can be done with¬ 
out restoring to ar¬ 
chitectural pretentious¬ 
ness. Done for Dr. 
Ralph Pemberon, at 
Paoli, Pa. 
Nothing was added to the area of the plan in 
this instance, but there was a rearrangement 
of partitions and windows 
'I'he illustrations of this article 
show new houses made from old 
in both ways, by an architect 
whose imagination and conscien¬ 
tiousness achieve unusually happy 
results in this kind of work. 
In the first example the fin¬ 
ished house shows little in com¬ 
mon with the original except the 
characteristic local combination 
of ledge stone masonry partly ex¬ 
posed and partly stuccoed. A 
technique of simplicity, too, has 
been kept as a keynote, and it is 
a technique excellently suitable 
for the remodeling of old farm¬ 
houses elsewhere than in Penn¬ 
sylvania. 
It will be seen from the plans 
that the old house has been 
doubled in size, and given an en¬ 
tirely new arrangement, while the 
exterior has been treated so that 
the whole new house has the 
unity of expression which is one 
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