House and Garden 
rolling in from the Atlantic 
fall in thunderous tones upon 
the very underpinning of the 
house itself. The view in every 
direction is superb, including 
Massachusetts Bay, Manches¬ 
ter, Beverly, Salem and Mar¬ 
blehead; while all northerly 
coasting traffic to and from 
Boston passes close to this 
sightly point. 
The house is built of stone 
and wood in a very substantial 
manner and has accommoda¬ 
tions for a large family. The 
hall is entered from a door in 
the centre, protected by a wide 
porch, and is a large room sur¬ 
rounded by a gallery on three 
sides, from which open the rear of mrs. hanks’s bungalow 
several sleeping-room suites. 
and looking out to sea is a large dining-room 
with hreplace and wide windows, affording 
a fine view ol the bay and Salem and Marble¬ 
head harbors. From the hall, as well as 
from the library and dining-room, doors 
open onto a recessed piazza, from the railing 
of which one can easily drop a pebble into 
the surf that lilts and breaks below. 
These bungalows on the Massachusetts 
coast will serve to show 
the possibilities of this 
type of summer home. 
Within its essential limi¬ 
tations ol compactness, 
and economy of con¬ 
struction and adminis¬ 
tration, the plan is suffi¬ 
ciently flexible for all 
purposes. It can be 
made larger or smaller 
as the size of family and 
the number of its guests 
may demand; extension 
being in a horizontal 
rather than in a vertical 
sense. Indeed a two- 
storey bungalow is some¬ 
thing of an anomaly and 
the name should be 
preferably confined to 
one-storey structures, 
a dining-room at misery island though a minor area of 
The gallery is reached by a staircase at one 
end, but was planned to be entered by compan¬ 
ion ladders arranged to hoist up after one in 
Robinson Crusoe fashion. At the right of the 
large entrance hall is a smaller room, library 
or den, with a huge fireplace and comfortable 
Dutch settles, a charming place for a game 
or a smoke. On tlie left is the kitchen and 
pantry, both finely appointed, and in front 
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