New-York tribune., 1921-03-27
BY William John Cherry


The house shown this week success.
fully solves, probably, the most dis
eouraging and ugly location problem
The suburban home seeker ever meets.
Therefore, when the agent shows .yoss
4 lot at bargain because IL is low and
slopes back from the Sidewalk pretend
To hesitate. but close with him at, once
before he raises the price.
Of course. nobody wants to sit in
fhe parlor window and gaze at a yer-
ticai lawn with passersby peering in
the bedrooms upstairs. That's why the
real estate man thought he had caught
. sucker at last, but he hadn't, least
wise not if you have the house shown
herewith in your mind, for it is one
way an architect solves such problems.
] he real estate agent didn't have an
anrhitec.s imagination and resource
fusness.
Many people build from force of
habit, which is why dining rooms get
on the northwest corner instead of the
southeast. They gaze at row of liv-
cry stables and throw ashes into the
+ sunset. & In this case they would ordi-
narily have gone down some steps to
enter the front yard, then UP some
steps tosenter the house like through
the valley Of the shadow, but not here,
for ]. much after the manner of
Napoleon. "created circumstances. "ss
Ugly site Makes Interesting Plan
Tie house is entered on the level, or
nearly 50, as q house should be, and
not perched3 up on an abandoned stone
fort. Planting conceals, or rather or
naments, the start of the slope toward
che rear. One side is set out with use-
full fruit trees and the other side is
lawn with driveway to the garage,
which is where a garage belongs, name
~, in the house. Stables belong on the
uttermost corner Of the lot for strong
reasons, but the gsrage, located back
there represents the same. geological
period as the side cranking horizontal
opposed cylinder engine located under
fake coachman's seat
Since we arrived this way we will
shut the garage door, lock it on the in
side and pass into finished corridor
with staircase leading up to the first
floor. where pedestrian callers arrive.
On one side of the passage is the boiler
end coal room. It is closed off; no
uuSt, UO dSHeS. OpPOSltc Is pdIluI
Of laundry we'll lighted, white and
clean. 1t has two store closets, one of
chen, being the terminal of that high
est of Injuries, a clothes chute. There,
too, is toilet adjoining the laundry.
Before going up we look into a big
store room ranged with shelves Of
canned fruits and homer growngv <
tables. There is window for light,
precluding the use OF the space as safe
for storing certain tabooed fluids.
but, after ALL with country freedom,
view of the horizon, hemisphere of
9od'ssfree sky, and with apples, pears
and peaches of your own all growing,
small sorrows are easily forgotten. So
we close the door and go upstairs.
Room for Forty Dancers
In front Of the house and a step
above lawn and sidewalk level is a
hall large in size and architectural.
Wide openings each side into the liv-
ing room and dining room, respec-
E lively, permit entertaining full house
with twenty or more couples dancing
at. once. Upward the stairs develop
into graceful spiral, a typical Co
lonial fancy but rarely attainable il,
the small house.
The living room is 90 feet long. In