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Cover Design : House in Rochester 
From a photograph by Nathan R. Graves 
Contents Design: Berrydown Court, Hampshire, England 
E. L. Lutyens, architect 
Photograph by Thomas W. Scars 
Frontispiece: House Near Villa Nova, Pa. 
Charles Barton Keen, architect 
Photograph by Thomas W. Scars 
The Fireproof House. 13 
By Jared Stuyvesant 
What the Period Styles Really Are—IV. 1 7 
By Lucy Abbot Throop 
Some Hardware Suggestions. 20 
By Carleton Monroe Winslow 
Lighting Fixtures of Character. 22 
By Katharine Newbold Birdsall 
Kitchens Old and New and Their Suggestions. 24 
Photographs by M. H. Northend, J. T. Beals and others 
The Problem of the Bathroom. 26 
By A. Raymond Ellis 
Suggestions from English Country Houses. 28 
A Setting for the Country Home. 29 
By E. P. Powell 
1 he Best Trees for the Central West. 31 
By Frank C. Pellett 
Poultry Breeds for the Suburbanite 
Various Architectural Types of Country Homes. 32 
Photographs by J. T. Beals, R. T. Jeffcott and others 
The Real Meaning and Use of Architectural Detail. ... 34 
By Louis Boynton 
The Best Use of Stonework. 37 
By Harold Donaldson Eberlein 
Suggestions From German Country Homes. 40 
How to Read an Architectural Drawing. 41 
By Russell Fisher 
The Home of Mr. H. M. Turner, Chappaqua, N. Y. 42 
Alfred Busselle, architect 
A House at Cedarhurst, L. 1 . 43 
Louis Boynton, architect 
Inside the House . 44 
Garden Suggestions and Queries. 46 
Ingenious Devices . 48 
Protecting the Owner in His Specifications 
HENRY H. SAYLOR, 
Editor 
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