The house is to be built of ordinary brick laid in Flemish bond, with white painted woodwork and green blinds above 
A Design for a Colonial House 
PLANS AND A FRONT ELEVATION OF A BRICK HOUSE ALONG COLONIAL LINES, ESTIMATED 
TO COST $ 6,400 IN DELAWARE 
DESIGNED BY WILLIAM DRAPER BRINCKLE, ARCHITECT 
tt/^OLONlAL” is a sadly, sorely commonplace term; 
v_> every over-columned, over-corniced white elephant 
of a house is joyously labeled “Colonial” by its merry 
builders. Indeed, many over¬ 
correct purists speak now of 
“Georgian” Architecture, as one 
might say “Elizabethan” or “Ja¬ 
cobean.” Still, stripped of its 
crustations, “Colonial” is a brave 
old word. So this is a Colonial 
house; that is to say, a sane, com¬ 
fortable house, that aims to fit the 
atmosphere of the historic old 
Southern Delaware town where it 
is being built, and likewise to fit 
the beautiful old Colonial furni¬ 
ture, that the owner has gathered, 
bit by bit, from that richest mine, 
the Maryland-Delaware peninsula. 
The item of cost entered ser¬ 
iously into this house. With very 
few exceptions, “stock” mill-work 
alone is used—but used with care, 
mark you! Indeed, it is far 
simpler (from the architect’s stand¬ 
point) to ink in whatever quaint details comes into one’s 
head, than to laboriously puzzle over catalogues and stock- 
lists, fitting in a sash from this, a molding from that, a door 
from the other, turning things on 
their heads, using moldings as no 
conventional mill-man ever in¬ 
tended you should; but there is a 
very great saving to the client’s 
check-book in so doing, as anyone 
who has paid the bills for “special” 
mill-work will certify you! 
Now, to the house. It is built 
of the ordinary local hard brick, 
laid Flemish bond, with black 
headers, very wide joints, and 
white limestone trimmings. The 
front door, with its side-lights, is 
of California redwood—an ex¬ 
tremely cheap, yet very beautiful 
wood that is just being introduced 
to the Eastern market. All else 
is local pine, painted cream-white, 
with green blinds. 
Three or four steps lead up to 
the wide, brick-paved terrace, 
A brick-paved terrace, bounded by a privet hedge, 
extends across the front. 
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