19 
Pebruary, 1920 
INDIVIDUALITY IN COUNTRY HOMES 
Houses That Live hitimately With Their Sites and- Yet Maintain Their Personality 
Are Shown In These Designs by II. T. Lindeherg 
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T here are a number of reasons why peo¬ 
ple seem to be more familiar with the 
working theories of art, meaning painting, 
than with any kind of theories regarding archi¬ 
tecture. But the reasons are not conspicuously 
reasonable. 
For one thing, the artist is a more real per¬ 
sonality to most people—they have a mental 
image o*f him, accurate or not, according to 
their knowledge—while of the architect they 
have no definite image, or, for the most part, 
no image at all. This is partly because there 
are so many different kinds of architects. 
There are different kinds of artists, too, but 
most people visualize but one—an inspired, 
temperamental creature of genius, ever inter¬ 
esting and never understandable. 
But here we should abruptly stop this im¬ 
aginary dividing wall between “artist” and 
“architect” and demolish it for all time, 
awaking to the fact that there should be no 
distinction, that both are artists. 
There is, obviously, a practical side to the 
architect which is nearly always lacking in 
the artist, for the practice of architecture in¬ 
volves technical and executive abilities with 
which the architect must be endowed. 
His identity with the artist lies rather in 
the vision which enters into his projected work, 
and in the pictorial aspect of the w-ork when 
it is completed. In a slightly extended de¬ 
velopment of this thesis will be found the basis 
of a real appreciation of the work of H. T. 
Tfindeberg, as illustrated by a few country 
liouses shown in this article. These are not 
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Viewed from the northeast, the residence of Mrs. Lizbeth Ledyard shows picturesque details of the architecture—the garden wall pierced by an arched 
gate, the octagonal stairs window, the pointed roof of the entrance ell and the roofed gallery to the garage. The whitewashed brick walls contrast 
pleasingly with the green fields about the house 
