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Show Plate LIII. House, pergola and garage for Burton S. Westcott at Springfield, Ohio. Plastered walls. tile roof, cement base courses and ground work. House of the large living-room type: the necessary privacy for various functions obtained by screens, contrived as bookcases. and seats beside the central fireplace. In front a tiled terrace, to be covered with awning in summer, and a lily pool. flanked with large cast concrete vases. The grounds are terraced above the street. Plate LIV. Concrete flat building at Kenwood for Warren McArthur. Arrangement of three, four and five-room apartments for light housekeeping. The central court open to the south. Plate LV. Boathouse for the University of Wisconsin Boat Club. A shelter for rowing shells on the ground floor, with floating landing piers on either side. The floor above is utilized-as a club room, with lockers and bath. Plate LVI. Dwelling for Mr. and Mrs. Avery Coonley, Riverside, Illinois. Living-room interior. Plate LVIa. Dwelling for Mr. and Mrs. Avery Coonley. Inner perspective of entrance alcove of living-room. and plan showing disposition of furniture. Plate LVII. Residence of Mr. and Mrs. Avery Coonley. A one-story house designed for the prairie, with the basement entirely above ground, similar to Thomas, Heurtley and Tomek houses. All rooms, except entrance hall and play-room, are on one floor Each separate function in the house is treated for and by itself, with light and air on three sides, and grouped together as an harmonious whole. The living-room is the pivot of the arrangement, with entrance, play-room and terraces below, level with the ground. forming the main unit of the design. The dining-room forms another unit. The kitchen and servants' quarters are in an independent wing. Family sleeping-rooms form still another unit, and the guest-rooms a pendant wing. Stable and gardener's cot- tage are grouped together and informally connected by a covered way, which terminates in the gar- dener's veranda. An arbor crosses the garden to the rear, terminating in the service entrance. The stables, stable yards and gardens are enclosed by plastered walls. Plate LVIII. Designed for summer residence of Harold McCormick at Lake Forest. To be cast, window mullions, walls and members in concrete, with overhanging tile roofs. To be situated on a high bank of Lake Michigan on a projecting point formed by two ravines. Entrance court toward forest: terraces toward lake. Several porches on either side. Family bed-rooms in independent wing, with enclosed garden for children: play-house at angle of wall. fountain emptying into head of ravine, which passes beneath the bed-room wing. Guest-rooms over main rooms. Servants in kitchen wing. Underground corridor connects servants` quarters with bed-rooms. Plan LIX. Summer residence of Harold McCormick, from the lake. Plate LX. Amusement resort designed to be built at Wolf Lake, Indiana. Designed to utilize. by means of dredging, a tract of swamp land bordering on a shallow lake in the vicinity of Chicago, as an amusement resort. The concessions usual to such a project are here screened in a back field by means of uniform entrances constructed on a spacious circular mall. At the center of the arrangement is the band stand, with a circular tract and field for races and fetes. A |