House and Garden 
FIRST FLOOR PLAN-BATES COTTAGE 
do furnish a room!’ Adore than this their historic 
value is immense. Historic values, however, are 
not much discussed in modern cottage architecture. 
“ The two cottages illustrated have rather low 
ceilings, eight feet six inches and eight feet for the 
first and second stories respectively. They are 
inexpensively finished in soft woods. There is a 
SECOND FLOOR PLAN—BATES COTTAGE 
little exposed and heavy timbering in the living-room 
of the Goodchild house, and the kitchen of the Bates 
cottage has a tiled floor. They have practically 
all the modern conveniences, such as hot water 
heating appliances, electricity, gas, water, sanitary 
plumbing and sewer connection; but in their design 
the straight and narrow path of lealty to art in the 
country and Anglo-Saxon home traditions has been 
faithfully pursued in spite of the clamor of modern 
selfishness which ruthlessly levels city dwelling- 
houses to make room for the hideous skyscrapers, 
the evil of modern congestion.” 
STONE COTTAGE OF ELDRED BATES, ESQ. 
