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22 
House & Garden 
Gillies 
By building the 
garage under the 
house, yard space 
and the erection of 
a separate struc¬ 
ture are saved, as 
in the home of 
Henry G. Morse, 
architect, at Eliza¬ 
beth, N. J. 
The studio, being 
over the garage, 
has a raised floor 
level to provide 
space for the car 
beneath, thus also 
affording an inter¬ 
esting break from 
the hall 
lems over to a reputable architect, and it still does. Perhaps some 
readers have not found this such a simple matter as it looked. 
Architects apparently made no money from designing small 
houses. They were willing to criticize the jerry-built, jig-saw 
monstrosities that contractors and builders foisted upon the unsus¬ 
pecting public, but they did very little to stop it because the meth¬ 
ods of stopping it required an unproductive means of making 
a livelihood. That this condition has been recently remedied is a 
source of congratulation to both the architectural profession and 
to the vast body of men and women in this country who plan to 
build. 
The last convention of the American Institute of Architects en¬ 
dorsed the Architects’ Small House Service Bureau. A group of 
practicing architects in Minneapolis were stirred by the ideal of 
giving the American public plans, specifications and elevations 
of good small houses at reasonable cost. Hitherto the practice of 
The large living room of the Dithridge house has brownish gray 
rough plaster walls with which the dark oak woodwork accords 
perfectly. An air of spaciousness is given by carrying the ceiling 
up into the peak. C. M. Hart, architect 
