House and Garden 
is partly in the gable. 
Here the slanting roof 
is a little steeper than 
before, the windows are 
as plain as possible, 
the finish of the walls 
scarcely shows any in¬ 
tended decoration in 
the slightly raised cen¬ 
tral feature. It is a 
house like many others 
in Germany with noth¬ 
ing peculiar about it 
and attracting the at¬ 
tention of no one. 
And side by side with 
these let us see what 
the last third of the 
century has made of 
the German house. 
The outward con¬ 
ditions of the structure 
are the same : a slant- 
A STREET DOOR 
ing site, the necessity 
for the architect to 
build on an inclined 
plane. The propor¬ 
tions are the same, the 
materials seem to have 
been the same. But 
what a monster of 
taste ! A bad wooden 
balcony, sham walls, 
cheap o r n a mental 
stone, badly turned 
wood-carvings, and 
slate instead of a 
shingle roof, — alto¬ 
gether a bad Swiss 
cottage such as one 
often sees attempted 
in America. And 
herein live people who 
have nothing to do 
with Alpine life and 
Alpine air excepting 
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A GOOD EXAMPLE OF MODERN DOMESTIC ARCHITECTURE IN GERMANY 
The Residence of Herr Richard Beimerschmeidt , an artist oj the Munich School 
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