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HOUSE AND GARDEN 
April, ign 
A Book That Will 
Solve Your Building 
Problems 
DISTINCTIVE HOMES OF MODERATE GOST 
Edited by HENRY H. SAYLOR 
JT This book has been published in response to an ever-increasing demand for 
a volume of pictures, plans and descriptions of the most charming homes in 
this country—not the great estates and show places, but the sort of places 
that most of us can look forward to building, ranging in cost from $3,000 to 
$ 20 , 300 . 
tfT The illustrations, of which there are more than three hundred, both of the 
^Lexteriors of houses and their garden settings, and of the principal rooms inside, 
are all from photographs of houses already built, reproduced in superb half¬ 
tone engravings, with line drawings of the Boor plans. 
C The carefully selected contents include country homes, seashores cottages, allur¬ 
ing bungalows, inexpensively remodeled farmhouses, etc. All the desirable 
architectural styles are represented: Colonial, English Half-timber, Stucco, 
Cepent, Dutch Colonial (the gambrel roof type), Swiss Chalet, etc. Chapters 
written by authorities cover all sides of the fascinating problem of house¬ 
building, interior decoration and furnishing. The relations between the home¬ 
builder and his architect, the matter of plans, specifications, contracts, the 
puzzling problem of extras and how to avoid them—all these subjects are clarified in 
a most comprehensive and interesting way. Throughout the text are many pages of 
pictures illustrating constructive, decora¬ 
tive and furnishing details—entrance door¬ 
ways, bay windows, outside shutters, chim¬ 
neys, stairways, dormer windows, built-in 
china-cupboards, consistently furnished in¬ 
teriors, porches—all grouped so that the 
reader may, at a glance, compare all the 
best types. 
C “Distinctive Homes of Moderate Cost” is 
the most complete and authoritative vol¬ 
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perbly printed on plate 
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there are a few restricted developments 
offering bungalow sites and building 
plots of a very unique character. Rye 
Beach is connected with Mamaroneck, 
New Rochelle and Sea Cliff, Long Is¬ 
land, by ferryboat. Milton Point, which 
lies south of the village of Rye, is fa¬ 
mous for its beautiful residences, which 
are to a large extent occupied by some 
of the older and better known families 
of Westchester County. At the extreme 
point is the American Yacht Club. 
Port Chester is to a considerable extent 
a manufacturing village, and the business 
section has a very bustling and thriving 
appearance. The surrounding country is 
more rugged and far more rolling natural¬ 
ly than that of the more southerly coast 
country, offering a greater variety of home 
sites. There are very few developments 
near Port Chester, the country being 
largely taken up by large estates. 
It would be difficult to find a more at¬ 
tractive or more convenient suburban sec¬ 
tion than this Sound Shore Section of 
Westchester County. The transportation 
is most excellent, and as the New Haven 
trains make no stops between Mt. Vernon 
and 125th Street, all of the trains are fast. 
New Jersey, too, offers the shore-loving 
citizen attractive house sites. Her coast 
resorts are especially well known to New 
Yorkers, but more as a place to spend the 
vacation period than as a possibility for 
commuters. However, if we take a maxi¬ 
mum of one hour and a half as the limit 
of distance by train that one can commute 
comfortably, there are a number of places 
that can be reached. Probably the nearest 
of places within the suburban limits that 
one can find abundant opportunity for salt¬ 
water bathing, sailing, fishing and motor¬ 
boating to his heart’s content, is Green¬ 
ville, N. J., 4.2 miles from New York on 
the line of the New Jersey Central, and 
Bayonne, a mile further. Greenville is 
really a part of the municipality of Jersey 
City. It is less than half an hour from the 
business district of New York. 
Bayonne derives its name from the fact 
that it is situated on a peninsula that sepa¬ 
rates Newark and New York bays. There 
is already a large suburban community in 
each place and many fine residences have 
been built. However, for the man of mod¬ 
erate means the rents are not much more 
than half those in the metropolitan district. 
Houses rent from fifteen to fifty dollars 
per month, and sell from $2,000 upward, 
and building sites cost from ten to fifty 
dollars a front foot. 
The Atlantic Highlands, with the Atlan¬ 
tic Ocean on one side and the Shrewsbury 
River on the other, and the adjacent 
communities, Port Monmouth, Highland 
Beach, Normandie and Sea Bright, are 
very desirable seashore communities near 
New York. There is an all-water way of 
reaching the Atlantic Highlands by means 
of the Sandy Hook route. By rail the New 
Jersey Central will take you via Matawan 
in about an hour and forty minutes. 
Arthur W. Dean 
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