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House Garden 
The plan is bolh ample and compact. Consistently with the nrwer ideas on 
house planning, the dining room atid the kitchen arc compactly arra?iged, 
without the wasted floor area which necessitates many needless steps. The 
breakfast alcovi is located, for efficiency, between the dining room and the 
kitchen. no purpose of a moderate sized house is served by a large hall, 
more space has been available for the large living room with its enclosed porch 
CtilHes 
The plain stucco treatment of the garden front of this house tnade the necessity 
of good proportion imperative. There is an excellent relationship of masses 
and roof lines, and a frank use of materials. The site being a level one, the 
emphasis in design has been on the long horizontal lines, accentuated by 
the shadow cast by the slight overhang of the second story. The house is in 
Meriden, Conn., C. II. Cuno the owner and Frank J. Forster the architect 
The trend toward simplicity in in¬ 
terior treatments is apparent in the 
dining room of this house, where 
plain plaster walls are the setting 
for oak furniture. The chairs at 
head and foot of the draw-top refec¬ 
tory table are reproductions of one 
of the earliest known types of chair, 
the “ caqueteuse", with beaidifiil 
linotfold carving in its panel back 
