HOUSE And GARDEN 
almost always distin- 
The Southern Colonial house of the original type is almost always distin¬ 
guished by its high-columned porch, nearly surrounding the house and 
shading the windows. Occasionally the porch has a second story, as here 
example of the Dutch Colonial, examples of which 
- • ’ ~ T XT — T -—d occasionally 
The home of Mr. J. L. Baily, Ardmore, Pa., Baily_& Bassett, archi- 
found throughout Northern New Jersey and- 
Island. The central enlarged dormer is an unusual detail 
ftrumoic, ra-, Jjany w. 
house of what might be called the 
Its prototype was much simpler 
A modern Colonial house of clapboards on Long Island. With the exception 
tects. A dignified stone 
Pennsylvania Colonial type. 
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,s is a fairly representative example of the Mew 
J. Acker Hayes, architect 
One sees brick houses built in almost every 
style, but that material always seems most 
at home in a house of the Tudor type. 
Usually the gable ends are of a simpler form 
without the curves 
A California home that is based on the Swiss 
chalet. This style, with its deeply overhang¬ 
ing roof and wood construction, is well 
adapted to warm climates. Myron Hunt and 
Elmer Grey, architects 
The architects practising around Chicago may well lay claim to 
having developed a new type of architecture, based on no schol- 
astic precedent. Horizontal lines predominate 
The Norwegian type is rarely found in 
America. In this artist’s studio in the 
Catskills it seems particularly harmoni¬ 
ous. George A. Reid, architect 
It seems rather strange that so few houses built of cement are in 
the Italian style, which, by reason of its flat wall surfaces, is 
well adapted to that material. Louis Boynton, architect 
The English half-timber house as usually built in this country is merely a 
plaster house covered with wooden strips in a pattern. Here, however 
the timbers are a structural part of the wall. Oswald C. Hering, architect 
There is something about the Spanish Mission type of house, witn 
the brilliant coloring of its tile roof that makes it appear almost 
out of place in any location other than a flat, unshaded plain 
VARIOUS ARCHITECTURAL TYPES OF COUNTRY HOMES AS REP rE8£ NTED BY EXAMPLES FROM BOTH NEW 
ahfornia, more than any other state, has been developing a bunga- 
°w type. The mild climate and abundance of good wood have 
° een important factors in bringing it into wide use 
The French chateau type, while as distinctly marked as any of the others 1S _’ 
of course, suited only to the mansion on a great formal estate or for a p 
tation to the needs of a city house 
AND OLD BUILDINGS 
