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House & Garden 
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Wood shingles can be used with stone, 
clapboard or shingle walls. When stone 
walls are chosen the color of the shingle 
should be one tone, enough variety being 
found in the walls. Broken gables, as in 
this home of L. C. Frazer at Ridgefield, Ct., 
give added character to the roof. Gros- 
venor Atterbury, architect 
I asked a famous roof man the other day 
the best methods of hanging modem roofs. 
“Why, everybody knows,” he said. “Build up to 
the roof and just put it on.” But that isn’t the 
way the builder talks. For the tile roof, both 
hand and machine made, there is an approved 
modern method. The slate maker has a prac¬ 
tical way to insure the permanence of his roof. 
The wooden shingle today is handled with a 
technique of its own. The softly curved 
shingle-thatch has intricacies of construction 
that first bewilder you and than win your re¬ 
spect. The asbestos shingle boasts the simplest 
mechanism and is exceedingly picturesque. 
Now that the question of permanence in color 
is being solved its appeal is boundless. Be¬ 
cause the roof is so important, not only for 
beauty but for protection and comfort, a care¬ 
ful study of each type of roofing and the 
methods of construction is essential. 
In spite of the absorbing interest the pic¬ 
turesque side of roof building may have, if 
we are practical home builders we will decide 
very early in the game just what material to 
use for our walls—concrete, brick, stone or 
wood. Most people see their home as a whole 
from the very start. They know the way it is 
towns of France or Bermuda, is the color of 
the walls or roofs of the houses. 
You owe it to yourself and to your environ¬ 
ment to make the structure which is to be the 
expression of your own taste also a joy to the 
community. It is not enough these days to 
have a home that is a protection from weather 
and neighbors. The community spirit demands 
also that the shape and color of your roof 
should be in harmony with your walls and ap¬ 
propriate to the landscape. All of this may 
involve a little additional study of architecture, 
but once you are a prospective homemaker you 
will enjoy reading anything that relates to the 
development of your home. And the more you 
study about building the more you will realize 
that a certain amount of conformity to existing 
types in architecture is necessary; not because 
these types exist, but because they came into 
existence reasonably. The heavy weight of a 
tiled roof would seem absurd on a light 
wooden structure; slate would be harsh on an 
old Colonial dwelling; and thatch, while pic¬ 
turesque on an English Cottage type, would 
not suit a French chateau or an Italian villa. 
Choose a roof that suits your mood and try to 
hold that mood through the development of 
your home. 
Variegated slate above walls of tapestry 
brick, face brick laid in patterns or half¬ 
timber work makes a handsome roof. This 
is desirable for a Tudor house, such as the 
home of George Arents, Jr., at Rye, N. Y., 
of which Lewis Colt Albro was architect. 
It is also especially applicable to Georgian 
houses 
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