House & Garden 
CONDE NAST, Publisher 
RICHARDSON WRIGHT. Editor 
R. S. LEMMON, Mantiging Editor 
SMALL HOUSES IN JULY 
T hose days are gone wherein the world looked 
somewhat askance at the dweller in a cottage. 
No longer are the number of one’s rooms or 
the length of one’s servant retinue reckoned as in¬ 
fallible indications of one’s standing in the com¬ 
munity. On the contrary, attention is being di¬ 
rected with increasing interest and respect to the 
small house. We are coming to realize that “he 
who builds himself a great mansion takes unto him¬ 
self a master.” 
Several causes operate to create this attitude on 
the part of the house building and owning public. 
The super-inflated cost of construction is one, the 
scarcity of servants is another, the renting difficul¬ 
ties which confront city dwellers and urge them 
toward moderate sized suburban homes is a third. 
But underlying them all is a growing appreciation 
of the real satisfaction, the genuineness and sim¬ 
plicity, of the small house and what it stands for. 
This is a fundamental reason, a soundly based and 
enduring one. Its growth is an encouraging sign 
in days of uncertainty and unrest. 
We give a lot of thought to these things here in 
the House & Garden office; if we did not, we 
would be failing in our duty of keeping editorial 
fingers on the pulse of our readers. We feel its 
Four small houses are in the July 
number. One of them, of which 
this is an entrance detail, is stone 
and stucco 
beat strongly—letters innumerable, voluntary re¬ 
sponses to articles which we publish, inquiries com¬ 
ing in every mail about the problems of home 
building, all are significant indications. They more 
than bear out our decision to devote twelve pages 
of the July number especially to small houses and 
their surroundings. 
First, there are photographs and floor plans of 
four different types, each suited to some particular 
set of conditions. The landscape treatment of small 
properties is covered in another article, and then 
come five pages in which the interior of the house 
is considered from floor covering to ceiling paint. 
Thus the dwelling and its immediate surroundings 
are discussed, and as a logical rounding out of the 
subject you will find designs of varied fences which 
show how the whole property may be enclosed 
with taste as well as practicality. 
This is not all, of course. The manifold other 
things which are of vital interest to House & Gar¬ 
den’s readers come in for their share of attention. 
Water gardens, there are, and dogs, and dressing 
room fitments, and vacation specialties, to mention 
a few specifically. But we started out to make the 
July issue a real small house number, and we’ve 
done our best to succeed. 
Contents for June, 1920 . 
Cover Design by L. V. Carroll 
A Pool for Every Garden. 2 b 
Mary Ellen Shipman, Landscape Architect 
Statuary in the Small Garden. 27 
Harold A. Caparn 
Cedar Brook Farm, Webotuck, N. Y. 30 
Lewis Colt Albro, Architect 
The World Outside Cities. 32 
For the Good of His Body. 33 
Collecting Old-Time Garden Books. 34 
Gardner Teall 
A House for a Long Plot. 36 
Harry Redjern, Architect 
A Garden in Two Parts. 38 
G. T. Huntington 
Stone Furniture for the Garden. 39 
On the Trail of the Highboy . 40 
Walter A. Dyer 
The Garden of Dr. J. Henry Lancashire. 42 
Mrs. M. A. Hutcheson, Landscape Architect 
Gothic Statuary as Decorations. 44 
Peyton Boswell 
Volume XXXVII, No. Six 
Studies in Stairways. 45 
Three Garden Houses. 46 
Jack Manley Rose 
A Rose Garden in a Circle. 47 
Lillian C. Alderson 
Cannas to Brighten the Garden. 48 
J. Horace McFarland 
A Little Portfolio of Good Interiors. 49 
A Georgian Country House in New Engl.and. 52 
Bigelow & Wadsworth, Architects 
Some Cats of High Degree. 54 
Dooryard Gardening . 56 
Robert Stell 
Groups for the Mantel Shelf. 58 
Saving Time on Tuesdays. 59 
Ethel R. Peyser 
Window Boxes and Veranda Vines... 61 
Florence Spring 
The Art of Tea in a G.arden. 62 
Small Accessories for the Country House Porch. 63 
The Gardener’s Calendar. 64 
Copyright, 1920, by Condi Nast & Co., Inc. 
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