December, 1918 
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This home reads like 
a medieval text — 
brown and soft toned 
without, and every 
room its own rubric. 
The dull gold of the 
brick exterior is 
trimmed with rough 
surfaced wood stained 
black. Plaster and 
sashes are of white, 
while the roof is gray 
green. Above the en¬ 
trance hangs an ultra- 
marine blue porch. 
Here is a house with¬ 
out a front, its archi¬ 
tect insisting that a 
home needs but an 
entrance side and a 
garden side to meet 
the essentials 
The house is indige¬ 
nous to its setting, the 
architecture being of 
the flat low character 
which is bred in the 
environment of the 
Middle Western 
plains. It is unusual, 
but it is distinctly 
American of a lo¬ 
cality. White birch 
and oaks are supple¬ 
mented by plantings 
of shrubs, sumachs, 
varieties of dogwood 
and native crab 
apples, hawthorn and 
witchhazel trees, the 
general character be¬ 
ing full and rich, typi¬ 
cal of Middle West¬ 
ern foliage 
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The RESIDENCE of JAMES F. CLARKE, Esq. 
FAIRFIELD, IOWA 
BARRY BYRNE, Architect 
