February, 1920 
IS 
We Knew You Wanted It—And So It’s Here! 
THE HOUSE & GARDEN BOOK OF HOUSES 
W E’VE so often suggested 
that you make a scrap 
book for your house— 
haven’t we? That you cut out 
all the lovely bits of detail you 
came across—a garden wall, a 
homesome doorway, a gay 
sprite of a fountain—and paste 
them into a book of remem¬ 
brance. 
Some of you really got the 
book started, for you told us so. 
Some of you didn’t. 
Now—because we wanted all 
of you to have it—we’re taking 
our own advice and making the 
book ourselves. 
It shows what we think are the 
best things—the very best— 
that we’ve published for five 
whole years. 
It begins with a real heart-to- 
pocketbook talk on house-plan¬ 
ning by Richardson Wright, 
House & Garden’s editor. Then 
it plunges into all sorts of 
beautiful architectural detail— 
doorways, and windows, and 
fireplaces, and chimneys, and 
lattices—those little perfect 
This Is The Book 
Here Is What’s In It 
Examples of the best work 
of 80 leading architects. 
A total of 310 illustrations. 
75 photographs illustrating 
52 large and small houses, 
together with plans. 
25 pictures of large and 
small garages and service 
quarters. 
180 illustrations of architec¬ 
tural details of exterior and 
interior construction work. 
All sections of the country 
are represented in the types 
of architecture shown. 
things that make the house in¬ 
dividual. Not ten or twenty, or 
even fifty suggestions for that 
house of yours, but one hun¬ 
dred and eighty, covering 
everything in and about the 
home. 
Then there are fifty-two large 
and small houses with in¬ 
terior and exterior views— 
and—plans. These houses are 
worked out in varied materials 
and in all sorts of architectural 
styles. 
And at the back—perhaps the 
most valuable feature of the 
whole book—there are the 
names and addresses of the 
eighty architects and decora¬ 
tors whose work is represented. 
This is in order that you’ll have 
no trouble in writing to them 
direct when you need big plans 
and little bits of beauty for that 
house of your own. 
Now—that’s what the book is. A 
real book, by the way—not just 
a paper-covered magazine sort 
of thing. The price of it is $3. 
And—here is the coupon all 
ready for your name. 
! 
Sign, tear off, and mail the coupon now 
HOUSE & GARDEN, 19 West 44th St., New York City. 
You’re right about that Book of Houses. I do need it. 
And—here’s the three dollars. 
Name. 
Street. 
Sometimes it isn’t the big things that bother you in 
house-planning. - - - Wouldn’t you like to have it all 
settled about the clothes closets—including a closet for 
shoes? Fireplaces, too—they make the house alive. 
Wall finishes are important, and hard to decide on. 
And what should one do with the floors? All these 
City 
State. 
things, and ever so many others, are in House & Gar¬ 
den’s Book of Houses. - - - But you’ll see when it comes. 
H.G.-2-20 
