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A summer home in Wisconsin, Myron, Hunt & Elmer Grey, architects. The simplest ma¬ 
terials have been used throughout the interior as well as on the exterior 
houses, it is still more true that only an 
almost unrecognizable minority of the small¬ 
er houses can be so described. 
I am therefore compelled to present for 
your consideration as illustrating the possi¬ 
bilities of design in country houses, build¬ 
ings—which in most cases, are put, on the 
score of expense, outside the range of 
possibilities for me, and perhaps for most of 
you; but they will illustrate the trend of the 
current American thought on the subject, 
and the group does include three houses, the 
sizes of which are small and the cost hardly 
outside the range of the mechanic. 
Let us take up these three houses, the first 
of which is Hawthorne Lodge, the sum¬ 
mer home of Miss Maria Grey at Fox 
Point, Wisconsin, which is as inexpensive 
as it is simple; the materials are only those 
common to all classes of cheap houses, 
and less expensive than many. There is not a cent wasted in 
elaborate cornices, brackets or details of any sort — much as was 
the case with the delightful farmhouses of Colonial times, whose 
simplicity displayed the elegance of quiet good taste. The shape 
of the house as a whole leaves nothing to be desired, and it is 
frankly upon its shape, or mass, as we call it technically, that the 
A country home at Pleasantville, N. Y., William A. Bates, architect. 
There is an interesting and unusual use of stonework in the circu¬ 
lar columns supporting the wide overhang 
-design depends. A simple straight roof line is broken only by a 
single chimney, and the piazza at one end is balanced by a low 
■extension at the other. There remains nothing more to be said 
about the house; it is an ideal country home for people of re¬ 
finement whether they be wealthy or poor. 
The second house was a gate lodge designed for the country 
-estate of one of our families most prominent in the business and 
social life of the nation. Here was a case of a man who, because 
-of the possibilities for travel and education, appreciated that 
good design was as much a necessity in small work as in large, 
and he accordingly built his gate house with the same care he 
gave to his dwelling. No better proof is needed that art can be 
obtained as well in small work as in large, than the fact that his 
gate lodge is much superior in design to his house itself. It is 
designed along familiar English lines, in half-timber and stucco 
with a tile roof, and while the building was not a cheap one, its 
The home of Mr. Frederick Swift, Pelham Manor, N. Y., Ewing & 
Chappell, architects—an informal adaptation of the Colonial to an 
irregular site. The porch extension secures a cool breeze from 
any direction that the wind may blow 
The summer home of Mr. George Davidson at Madison, N. J., 
Albro & Lindeberg, architects. An interesting variety in plan 
and also better lighting for the important rooms of the first floor 
have been obtained by swinging off at an angle the end wings 
price by no means put it out of the range of everyone. If Mr. 
Jones and Mr. Smith could have this house as well as Mr. Van¬ 
derbilt, I think that criticism of Mr. Vanderbilt’s taste is ill 
taken when we consider the house that Mr. Jones or Mr. Smith 
lives in, stained in gaudy colors, replete with unmeaning and ridic¬ 
ulous ornament, and about as expressive of Mr. Jones’ or Mr. 
Smith’s own quiet temperament as would be a business suit of 
purple and scarlet. 
