House and Garden 
THE DINING-ROOM OF THE BATES COTTAGE 
jealousy than anything else, and raise the tax rates 
of their respective owners rather than lower them. 
Mr. }. W. Dow, the architect of the houses, writes 
as follows concerning them: 
“They were both built by the clay as the local 
contractors did not care to figure on work so unusual, 
having so much of English architectural detail. 
Houses of this type, while being hardly suitable for 
the real estate speculator, are eminently desirable 
for anyone desiring ideal, livable houses, and whose 
interest in the possible cash returns of the investment 
is secondary. 
“The accompanying floor plans will explain the 
interior mechanism of the two cottages, which is 
more unusual in the Goodchild house than in the 
low stone cottage of Mr. Bates, but both plans are 
extremely simple. Neither of these cottages faces 
upon the street but set endwise to it, and neither 
has a veranda. The casual observer will hardly 
notice this latter omission. 
First Floor Plan 
THE GOODCHILD HOUSE 
Second Floor Plan 
