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Show Plate XLIII. A simple wooden house of bungalow type on the edge of a ravine in Glencoe. Designed to be occupied without servants, although room is provided for them below stairs. The living- room is used as the dining-room in winter. In summer the enclosed veranda is used. Plate XLIII. A board house for Mr. Stewart at Fresno, California. Plate XLIII. Sketch for one-story rambling dwelling on the lake shore, beside a deep ravine, at Highland Park, for Mr. Adams. Plaster and wood. Plate XLIV. Suburban dwelling for George E. Millard, Highland Park, Illinois. A simple wooden house in the woods by a Highland Park ravine. Plate XLV. Cottage for Mrs. Thomas H. Gale, Oak Park, Illinois. A simple treatment of the small house problem, with flat composition roof. Plate XLVI. General perspective view of Como Orchard Summer Colony. Designed to give accommodation to a group of university men owning adjoining orchards and wishing to live near in summer time. An arrangement of simple wooden cabins with a central club house, where all go for meals, and tran- sients may also be accommodated with rooms. Plate XLVII. Central club house for the colony. Plate XLVIIa. Typical cottages, Como Orchard Colony. Plate XLVIII. Three typical houses for real estate subdivision for Mr. E. C. Waller. Hip roof, flat roof and gable. Plate XLIX. Bank and office building for the City National Bank, Mason City, Iowa. A bank with offices to let above. Plate L. Cottage for Elizabeth Stone, Glencoe, Illinois. Design for a summer house in the wood. Sleeping-rooms. living-room with balcony, and dining-room, which may be opened like a porch, and each separated by small, open, flower-filled courts. Plate LI. The house of Isabel Roberts in River Forest, Illinois. A working out for a narrower lot of the plan devised for Wm. Norman Guthrie, Sewanee, Tennessee and afterwards built for Frank T. Baker at Wilmette, Illinois. Plate Lib. Study for a summer house for Mr. E. C. Waller at Charlevoix, Michigan. Plate LII. Home for Walter Gerts at Glencoe, Illinois. A simple gabled residence in a garden behind a wall. The music-room, on the bed-room floor, the main feature of the house. The roof is doubled, with cir- culating air spaces between, the upper roof projecting over the ends, the lower over the sides of the building: the rooms extending into the roof space beneath the lower roof. No excavation. Plan given of lower story on garden level. |