House and Garden 
II. A New House on Old Lines 
CHARLES E. PATCH, Architect 
T HERE is nothing of novelty in this design as the 
house represents a deliberate return to old 
models, with such modifications, however, 
as would better suit with the conveniences of to-day. 
The house is thoroughly well built and the work 
was all done by local workmen. The lumber and all 
other woodwork mentioned in the first item was con¬ 
tracted for with a large firm in Maine. The doors 
are of red cedar, the finish is partly Gulf cypress and 
partly whitewood, the whitewood portion being 
painted and the cypress stained. The heating is hot 
water, and the floors hard pine throughout, rift 
sawed in the principal rooms and halls. 
Towards the east is a piazza with columns (the end 
one showing in the photograph) looking eastward to 
the shore, Ipswich Bay and the sea in the distance. 
The plans will show other features, such as the vista 
from end to end of the front rooms and from front 
to back of the rooms on the right hand side. 
It should be noted also, that all the finish, both 
exterior and interior, was made to order from detail 
as were also of course, the mantels. Old-fashioned 
brass hardware and brass thumb latches were used 
throughout. 
These plans and items of cost are contributed to 
show that, even with labor as high as it is to-day, a 
good type of simple house with rooms of good size, 
may yet be well built at reasonable cost. The fol¬ 
lowing schedule of cost of this residence at Ipswich, 
Mass., will be of interest: 
All woodwork in the building, frame, 
boarding, floors, sashes, doors, blinds, 
finish, etc. $2200.00 
Carpenters’ labor. 1025.00 
Excavating cellar, mason work, plaster¬ 
ing and fireplaces. 584.00 
Lathing. 45 00 
Window weights, nails, sheathing paper, 
deafening paper, metal flashings. 65.00 
Finish hardware. 67.00 
Builder’s (rough) hardware. 12.00 
Painters’ work. 260.00 
Mantels. 70.00 
Electric wiring. 40.00 
Heating. 435.00 
Plumbing. 300.00 
$5 I0 3 - 00 
Architect. 255.00 
$5358.00 
III. A Comfortable House 
SEYMOUR E. LOCKE, Architect 
T HE site of this house demanded a building 
whose greatest length would be parallel with 
the street. It is located on an avenue in 
Pasadena, California, which runs parallel with and 
overlooks the Arroyo Seco and the San Rafael Hills. 
The combination of shingles and the rough granite 
boulders from the beds of the mountain streams is a 
favorite one in that section and produces effects, 
taken in conjunction with the general setting of the 
place, at once picturesque and artistic. 
The extreme dimensions of the building are approx¬ 
imately thirty-eight feet by sixty-one feet. A com¬ 
modious cellar for the necessary heating apparatus, 
and the other usual purposes to which a cellar is put, 
is provided with a portion of it exposed to the outside 
light, the house being built on the edge of a bluff. 
The first floor, by reference to the plans, will be 
seen to contain a good living-room and den at the 
front of the house, connected by a hall which in itself 
is a delightful lounging-room. The stairway leads 
up from this hall to a very spacious landing from the 
circular bay window of which charming views of 
valley and mountains may be had. The dining¬ 
room and kitchen at the rear are connected by the 
butler’s pantry, which is under the stairway landing. 
The second floor has sleeping rooms for family and 
servants; also bath-room, linen closet, etc. The 
floors throughout the house are double, sound proofed 
and laid with first quality verticalgrained Oregon pine, 
planed, scraped and sandpapered and finished in 
best wax finish. 
The standing trim of the first floor, except the 
kitchen department, is of Shasta pine, a beautiful 
wood with satin-like grain, growing in the high 
Sierras, which when varnished and rubbed to a dull 
gloss surface is particularly attractive. The stair¬ 
way and upper hall were finished with the same wood. 
The plastering of the walls and ceilings of all living- 
rooms was finished with a rough sand coat and was 
tinted in strong but harmonious colors. 
The woodwork of the chambers was painted with 
egg-shel white, and the walls covered with papers of 
artistic design. The plumbing fixtures were of the 
best sanitary type, the hardware as good as is made 
for wear, and the electric fixtures artistic and appro¬ 
priate, matching the hardware finish in the several 
rooms. The construction throughout was sub¬ 
stantial and honest. 
The building was erected under contract at a total 
cost of about $5800. This, however, was at a time 
when materials and labor were probably at least ten 
per cent, less than they are to-day. 
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