H ouse and Garden 
COMBINED STABLE AND PIGEON LOFT-COST $1^00 Lawrence Vhscher Boyd, Architect 
THE MODERATE COST HOUSE IN 
PHILADELPHIA 
^ I ^HE time honored designation of Philadelphia 
as the city of homes is steadily maintained 
by the hundreds of new houses which are erected 
every year within the city limits and the nearby 
suburbs. During the past year in one quarter of 
the city alone over fifteen hundred houses of mod¬ 
erate cost have been built. 
The accompanying illustrations are typical of 
the best class of such work. Mr. Lawrence Vis- 
scher Boyd, the architect to whom we are indebted 
PLANS OF THE $45co HOUSE SHOWN ON PAGE 40 
for the photographs, has made a special study of 
the needs of clients of moderate means, and has 
devoted to their interests the same talent and care¬ 
ful business attention which it is often the good 
fortune of only the wealthy house huilder to secure. 
The prices noted in each case are those of actual 
cost as shown after the owner has paid all bills, 
and are of much greater interest and importance 
than the misleading “estimates” with which many 
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