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S'*' ' s r t r V T f i r i r a m t d rr' a „ THE ^aU ? °ne of the most neglected parts of tbe Roads and houses, l i r K / A M E R I C A N house, though m some respects it is the portion most Perfect agreeableness in a subu b B U I L D I N G M O N T H L Y £requcntly llSed’ and £t is certainly the part the had Without perfect unity in every part ^ be __________________________________________________stranger is most apt to see. In the country house, belongs as naturally on a good ro S°°d b°USe where one is not restricted to the exacting require- does in a church Mean* aS a sood mau ESTABLISHED 1885 ments of a twenty-foot lot,the size and disposition ofthe tion of all building operations in th^-t1 ^ f°Un<ia' $2.50 a Year. Single Conies, 25 Cents hall is a problem easily solved. In such houses the hall The road comes before the house ® ° r country. --------------------- becomes, quite naturally, a room, and may be treated in tiveness or lack of attractions will let ^ °Wn attrac' MUNN (SI CO., Editors and Proprietors a manner at once comfortable, hospitable, and attractive. acter of the edifices erected upon it 61 mme tke ebar- No. 361 Broadway, New York But in the city house, where the hall is too often sim- The foundation of a good road is ................ -...- Pty a Passage, that is used only because it must be, and It must be firm and strong, well made p r°ad bed' NEW YORK, FEBRUARY, 1902 fronl whlch one eagerly Passes into the more attrac- quickly rid of water after a rain and f°r’ — ■ tive Parts of the house, it is generally neglected. As dusty in drought. It must be strone n Qry ^ CONTENTS a matter 0f fact’ the hall> belng the flrst part of the a11 sorts of traffic, from heavy truckstolS i° E T house to be entered, should be as cheerful and pleasant carriages. And it is further essential n ?£easure cLCs\n°utRHm Mass0' T ™ T .’. 21 “ P°SSible’ ^ Wal1 treatment Sb°Uld take int° aC' ls met by assessments on the adjacen^rleL * T i Monthly Comment: Fire Tests in New York.—The C°Uat amount of light and the fact that it is more be not too costly. These are elemental conditions that Hall and its Treatment.—American High likely to be rubbed against and soiled than the walls must be met and solved before any sort of a • a£ Buildings in London.—The “ Model City” for of large rooms. A table for packages and hats will be built; and the success of the hn,,™ +>1 ro. can St. Louis.—Good and Bad Art......................... 22 be found sometimes more useful than a hat rack, al- der it must depend on what i« rinrm i„ +1 u Wl11 bor' Roads and Houses....................................................... 22 _______ ... . , , , „ 11 mubL uePena °n what is done m the beginning- Fire Waste in 1900 ..................................................... 22 thougl1 accommodations for coats and umbrellas are The suburban road, however, must be more Use of Formal Shrubs for Garden Decoration........ 23 imperative. Hall furniture is not always as well suited simple means of communication and do an a “Tragedy of Architecture.”........................................ 23 to its purposes as it should be, but better designs are answer the needs of the traffic that ,,m°re tban 4°Me,i'MedT?Val Towers and Castles of Italy.......... 33 now on the market than could formerly be had. The When the roads for a suburban ™ passes over it. A Modern Doorway..................................................... 36 ... , . ■ , . , . ,, vvneu me ioaas 101 a suburban community are lam A Residence at Fanwood, N. J.............................. 36 1!’ wblle available for pictures, should not be made out they must first of all form an artistic Dlan An English Villa at Ogontz, Pa.................................. 36 a catcli-all, where ornaments may be placed that do whole. The corners must not be too & A Dwelling at South Haven, Mich............................ 36 not fit in elsewhere. must he nn awirwarun, =bor,„u 1 . pt’ tkere A Residence at Bridgeport, Conn.............................. 36 , , ° awkwafdly shaped lots, grades must be A Stone Residence at Merion, Pa............................ 36 avoided when possible, the needs of the future must A Group of Artistic Roads ........................................ 36 rr.„.„ .__. „ . . „ „ . , be thought of. The first step in road embellishment A Residence at Prospect Park South, Brooklyn, merican invasion of Europe is about to assume a good plan N. Y......................................................................... 36 architectural form in the erection of a great office „ „„„„„„ . ,, . A Model Dwelling at Glenside, Pa............................ 37 building in London. It is a type of structure wholly ,, . , -c ones e sidewalks and trees, A Residence at Allenhurst, N. J.............................. 37 new to England, although the building laws will not l borders of grass and lawn, the planting of shrubs A Residence at Chestnut Hill. Mass......................... 37 „,,ooor,+ Q „ + ^ , . and flowers and such other ornamental additions ns The Architect and the Small House......................... 37 £ f ™ 1’ permit a gleater be?fht tban seyen stories- may be available. Some illustrations are Z ,1 Legal Decisions: Architect’s List of Extras as Evi- But the mere matter of a building law contains no wb in this magazinP of „nhl11,h„„ rn . 8 a se_ dence.—Assumption of Risk.—Consent of detriments to Yankee ingenuity, and it is confidently , , g . . an oads> aa<i only Owner to Improvements.—Costs and Attor- stated that, in a few years, modifications of existing t glance at J;he engravings is needed to demonstrate neys Fees.—Custom as to Scaffolding.—Lia- renuirement« will be bna Q bow mucb the roadway and its adjuncts help in the bility of Contractor for Negligence.—Limit of Q ® f 11 be had wbich wl11 enable the pro- general effect. In the road at 0gontz every advantage Lien for Services.—One in Possession Not lectors of the enterprise to erect a genuine American b b t k f thp tage Necessarily the Owner ...................................... 37 sky scraper. It is to be hoped that if this is done, it ITlnl taken of *he "atural surroundings. The Talks with Architects: No. 13.—Mr. William J. will not be on the New York model. The art of high grades are sllght and not more than are needful to E « the.NeW. ! enement.H0USe.La!.!n 38 build^ design is most industriously practised in the ^ ^ °n aSC®nt and d“ - The New Books: The Art of Building a Home.—Old metropolis of America, with the result that the only , .J11’ &n a S la an of grass Time Gardens......................... 38 genuinely artistic high office building in New York is SeparateS the walk fJ°“ the ™ad bed. A bank of Garden Notes: An Orchard of Beauty..................... 39 by a Chicago architect’ There are some other* nf gre6n agam surrounds the corner lot, which is in- Sanitation: Difficulties of Household Cleaning.—- merit ami i-eni int t -t • + , g cased with privet. The road needs trees, it is true Dusting in Railroad Cars.-Free Water in mellt and real mterest, it is true, but the Chicago-de- but the ol(Jer treeg th flourlshed here b ’ " “ 1 American Cities.—Gas in Rooms.—Plumbing signed building has, after four or five years, no rival. -t t f i -n- " , the site and Heating in Germany ................................ 39 London authorities may well shrink before giving per- T f , building purposes have beer re- Household Notes: Cozy Corner Deviations.—1The mission for the erection of a New York sky scraper- tai“ d .“ far &S 1 ®y C°Uld be’ and the newer trees- Home m the East Side/—A New Use for India ihai. + , , . ., . . p ’ just within the house lot, will grow and shade the Shawls.—The Public Laundry in Philadelphia. 39 that Structure bas only lts blgness and lts convenience in f 8Me t!le New Building Patents.................................................. 40 to recommend it; of art, as such, there is little if any. . . ,. ,, _ . , Publishing Department: Acetylene Gas.—Steel And dben’ tbe roa<lway finished, with its walks and Rolling Doors, Shutters, and Partitions.......... 40 strips of green, its trees and well-kept borders, comes = ------ ■ ■ = Many flourishes of trumpets have announced a model Ule disb°sition bf the houses. Here, too, the view MONTHLY COMMENT city as °f the attractions of the St. Louis Exposi- ^ Ogont* teac1^ an impressive lesson, for the houses MONTHLY COMMENT. ^ It ,g Qulte time wg ha(J guch an object.lesson> are irregularly disposed as they ought to be on a road The results of a series of tests of fireproof parti- and as no American city has yet been able to put itself Wlth graceful cllrves- and Wltb a graceful languor in its tions, conducted by the Department of Buildings for forward as a model town it may be presumed at the movements as tbougb not in to° great haste to reach the Boroughs of Manhattan and the Bronx, have been outset, that it will be quite unlike any existing com ltS P°mt °f °rlgm °r °f furthest development. Squarely recently made public. The object of the tests was “ to munity. A sad controversy that seems to have arisen S6t ’ l0tS °f a Single Size’ rigidity’ a11 tbese lecord the effect of fire of one hour’s duration, com- over the question as to who first made this suggestion pamful elements are ignored in this plan, which is mencmg at 500“ F. and increasing to 1,700“ F„ fol- adds to the interest of the preliminary discussion and ad“ lrable’ ^ lowed by the application of water for two and a half will doubtless have no effect in giving us the final model a S m th® n6Wly laid’°ut streets °f Pr°Spect Park minutes on the fire side. The area of each partition results. That American cities need many radical im- °^ ’ Brooklyn’ carry on tbe lesson further. There under investigation was to be at least 137.75 square provements, that they are badly planned badly pro- 18 fT® S6neral Plan’ °f & r0adWay Witt SideWalkS feet, with a width of 14 feet 6 inches and a height of vided with underground conveniences, fill’ed with un- Separabed by striPs of grass- tke grass striPs 9 feet 6 inches. The tests were notable not only for healthy, undesirable buildings and generally in need ^ W ^ ^ ShrubS and flower-beds add to tke the care taken m conducting them, but as being the 0f object lessons, are facts that no one will dispute pict™'es1ue effect- Here> also, is a young community first thorough tests of partitions ever made. Nearly The project of a model city is, however a large under- the treeS have not yet begun to grow’ but twenty forms of partitions were included, the types taking, and is not likely to succeed even nartiallv Wh,Cb before long wil1 be amply shaded by the growth represented comprising metal, lath and plaster, terra without the widest consideration and the broadest ?f already Senerously planted. The ground is cotta block, plaster composition block, and concrete study. A city is not an aggregation of houses de 1<5Ve1’ and therefore there are 110 grades; and the Pb signed by an architect, erected on streets planned by an aFe st"aight and bence tbe bouses are placed The results, as a whole, were highly satisfactory, engineer, and provided with the resources of modern ^ Squarely upon tllem- Bllt formal as this may but while the utmost care was taken to submit the sanitation; but it is the grouping together of a large S6em’ th® general efEect is not formal, but full of grace, various constructions to the severe requirements laid number of people having many different purposes in Charm’ ^ movement down at the outset, it was impossible to avoid certain life and engaged in many avocations. To condense all D Sti11 anotber type of road is furnished in Albemarle conditions which make the conclusions partly theo- these interests within model limits and incase them “ the Same settlement The founders of this retical. The partitions examined were built directly in modei structures designed in a model way is cer COmmunity have realized the value of grand dimen- on a low wall of brick, without wood at the base, and tainly a model object that the to-be-modeled populace S1°nSi n °Utd°0r ai't; and in the last‘named street hnve included no window or door openings. The area tested, of America must await with the utmost interest Provided great centerpieces, with shrubs and flowers, moreover, was limited, and hence the conditions which ’ tha-t help in the general result. It is a beautiful and aPPly practically in every structure were not quite delightful way in which to make a roadway. It is a accurately present. With but one exception neither Does good art cost more than bad art? The question direct encouragement to good architecture to build file nor water passed through a partition, and in no involves a contradiction, for the moment a thing be- roads such as this, instance did a dangerous quantity of radiated heat comes bad it ceases to be a work of art. Logically pass through any partition. The plaster block parti- there can be no such thing as bad art, for it is not art FIRE WASTE IN 1900. tions lost a portion of their plaster blocks by being at all if it be bad. But the exigencies of language are The rpview nf tun tt •* a q+ t ~ eWxaaSmSesaWoT c U T T ^ ^ ^ ^ “ a -venient during 1900, as given were washed away exposing be hol d 3 ! ^ f°" expr?SSlng a state of tbings tbat every one suggestive. The classification is so complete as to give would^herefore^e^as^hough^ln^nartHion^oT^b T T °J’ ^ M ^ ^ ^ Supporters’ underwriters a fair idea of what it has cost to carry would therefore seem as though, m partitions of those abettors, and producers. So far as money outlay is the various classes of risks in the United states The types, new construction would be necessary after a fire concerned good art should cost more than bad art. The summary 109 SI^ fires n UnRed states' t v ” rttr h;s hire- « he w j rz z away, Hut no injury resulted to tile metal structure. In good art tenure economlSTthanbaa art rtnc'eTJi “ d b“ ra,nE-h'",s“ «-2 ">CT “ ”t' of *>“ ,... ^ oinicai Liia-ii Ds,cl &rt, since it lnsts pronertv burned The lo^^ec; "hv evnnmirp were 27 "ner partitions of terra cotta blocks and concrete blocks the longer, and after a period of years may have an en- cent of the whole The Toss in vaNe Imounted to inside coatings of p aster were partly destroyed, hut hanced value, while the object in bad art will have suf- $161,000,000 June was thr moT disastrous month no other injury resulted. Measured by cost of repair fered a total eclipse and be a complete loss. The finan- the property loss being $19 065 240 rcrm irrpT ;reryevidentanaoffersnoroom r : ^ s tsln~ e i ye’a r s For a long time the formal gardensLhfchLo a In the views reproduced, representing “ The Ter- and occasional replanting lias been kept in the low in such numbers and in such high nerf^t- • races” in a garden at Llewellyn Park, Orange, N. J.,box and regular shape shown in the photographs, land and in Italy have been greatlv ^ 111 EnS- and cypress have been extensively used. The color The garden shown in the photographs is located ican travelers, but it is onlv vew \ fi mer‘ ef£ects have been produced by varying golden cypress on a terrace situated on the steep slope o la effort has been made to carrv out WUh the silver or gray-green variety. The cypress is Mountain. The landscape effect is lathei unusual, dening in this country With thr.°U- ^ Style °f Sar" also used ln some of the low plateaus or beds which as nine terraces are located back of the mansion an and garden, with its maerifipont 1,°n °f tbe park may be seen within the box border. Juniper was rise one above another almost to the top of the of curiously shaned C<L ,and, abundant array tried, but, although it is an attractive shrub, it is very mountain. As the direct ascent would be almost too Mr.H H Hun ne well atw i, . ’ belonginS to difficult to transplant with any success, and many steep for a path, the summer-house located on the has been made to L I 7 ^ Uttle attempt of these shrubs were lost. Juniper can hardly be upper terrace is reached by a flight of rustic steps work until within ti i T*3 hlS species of landscape recommended for general use. All of the shrubs in which start from the main entrance of the mansion, that in the I t • ® }&St fear or tW0‘ xt is Possible this garden are hardy, with the exception of the bay The terraces are banked with turf, while the border of character nf '-L ' • ldS . >een considered that this trees, which are used at different points on the terrace, each terrace is laid out with flowering plants in oidei rugged \ Sai e.ning dld not harmonize with our and the tubs in which they are placed are concealed to relieve the green background with a strong con­ it did lo t f landscape, or it is possible that by flowering plants which are placed about them. The trast of color. The effect from the driveway below to A • Seem t0 .nd ltself esPecially as an adjunct golden box has been used with very good effect in is quite interesting, owing to the novelty of the treat- 10 American architecture. ment employed, while the With the introduction, how- view from the summer- cvcr, of foreign influences house in looking down upon in ennui M-t ion with country the terraces below prn- liunu's, tbo laying out of A;*". duces an entirely distinct. s,'ff and formal parterres and separate impression. ' 1 " dnlit'. H | i ,*• and not u. few areliiteets “ THE TRAGEDY OF ABCH1 Imvo appi-oeiated this fact. 1' TECTURE.” and have seized upon this rajffiggifed ' ■■t I n modern architecture, method of carrying out a j§§& ' ' j TiFyV‘* remarks Mr. Guy Wilfrid general scheme of embel- Haylor. in a suggestive lishment, in which the art article in the Westminster of the architect and the Review, the despotism of science of the gardener are I 1 arbitrary style is no less happily combined. HBfcy j ' Jr* idiotic and offensive than N oti Ii.-ippv illustral ion * j". . i- 4 . * ■ ■ 111 de • < >n• ■ i •. !•• "i I! iii I , v S building is in vogue now, supplementing architectural then another, just because effect can be cited than the *LfC *f- w e want something fresh, beautiful residence of Mr. JH j not because one or the Giraud Foster, at Lenox. ^ IkW #- ' other is more suited to the Mass., in which the archi- J"iS B nature and purposes of the tectural effect of the man- SR building, or better adapted sion relies for Its charm, ’>"■ clumiir.. not onlj upon the beautiful ................... "ur modern civ location selected for a site, ilization. provided, as it is, with a The Introduction of va- background of forest trees, SBSSSBBS^SBBBSSBBBBSSBBSBBBBBm S^B S BBBiIP ________• riety into architecture of but the beauty of ONE OF “ THE TERRACES” AT LLEWELLYN PARK, ORANGE, N. J. C°',llSeK ^ COmm®nd which has been great- able, hut only where tirely unadapted to A FORMAL GARDEN AT LLEWELLYN PARK, ORANGE, N. J. are Permitted and American soil and even encouraged, evi- ,. , con(jitions. The yew will grow in American forming crescents and diamond-shaped plateaus. It dently because they are the latest or most modern. c 1 the washingtonia variety is about the only is hardy, and assumes a beautiful golden luster when at In the congested and break-neck state of our pres- y01 ' of ew which seems to flourish to any extent. This its best. The umbrella pine from Japan is also a ent civilization, what should he the legitimate influ- I^ IL in ly a great disappointment to any one who beautiful tree, which grows in a regular shape when ence of natural conditions on architecture is quite 1S c obtain the interesting effects that one will properly looked after. neglected. Prior to the great industrial revolution expef . an English garden. It is a scraggy, un- In laying out a garden of this character, care should which was the characterizing feature of the Victorian often n ru^ an(j jj. wm not lend itself to taking be taken to Introduce at different points color effects era, architecture had only problems presented by na- attractive s except after years of careful growth for purposes of contrast. In order to introduce bril- ture to face; life was simple, and what artificiality ex- an attiac i g ^ox .g a ^ar more available shrub liant reds and yellows, alternanthera has been psed in isted was little and inconsequential. But with the in- and priming- experiment here. It is hardy; it is carrying out the geometrical designs which may be troduction of machinery, mechanical contrivances en- with whu i ^ trimmed into almost any shape, noticed in some of the beds. It may be of interest to tered intimately into every-day life, revolutionizing all luxuriant, it ™aca^.jong ^ grows quite rapidly. It is the reader to know that the photographs were taken forms of building and bringing about untold com- and in many • unjegg a garden is being laid out only three months after the garden had been laid out, plexity in architectural problems. Steam, electricity, rich in tone, an .g propai3iy the most satis- and they, therefore, give a fair idea of what may be and free education produced a society different to on a very laige uge Qf jn order to quickly ob- done with careful handling in a short time. It should any that had previously existed. The ends of the earth factory shrub to cypress is also a shrub which he remarked, however, that the box bordering the were united, and the most tremendous action and re­ tain formal Qur cjjmate. paths is some thirty years old, but by careful pruning action came into play, 7 ‘' '■ ■ -r lp » ~ , ,J**^^** ‘ i f - ' " " j § p & | 1 -I T JBj|p^!* ’"'*«& " * ~* '7. ^» * mW -ggg s-kp gaps ^BagBp^ % SHr- -.^pllF^jcS Z.T? j r * " * * a f e i f e ~ i ~ L ^ X - *'*'<stl? ". . - <- wr^m- ^BBjlMB|^j|^ 77 u:. ^^S*f rmsmm* ■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■MBBBBBBBBBflRBBBBB11 flH B H BflHBBHBBBIBBBBBjVjB 6 ^ ^ yji ^ III &?a? ^ “ n ia £ z.w A „ l g Jm " || D/n /a/q ipoo/z. ----------- -----’-^------- £>£-0 @OOrL I | =:*— Q , I h i f a r j H J l , § r j e I w m I ^nLL r ^ faLL jf\//Nf Rook. I &znH?oo^L. B “ —---------- e/o ^ o^ oorL || /</ X/" I /V 2X/" Te/a ~~| G/o | 75r£. l /3 YX/& 9 &r L. iAkrn r>Fb -5 ■ *-------i - « ...|... .. B ------- * ■ ______ ^ = ^ = t= . m F™ F°°* acooN ofooR a E g g ] A RESIDENCE AT FANWOOD, N. J.-See page 36. MR. ABNER J. HAYDELL, ARCHITECT. * ^ ‘oicoA/n /Too/S- pkirJToof^ ' T " - * I — I S--- U u u V txfl. ^ ^ ^ j ^ ^/N,N$ ®oorL ;6W. _________________ ■ ■ m — ------- in ________ /_>_ F^TrfToOR. A DWELLING AT SOUTH HAVEN, MICH.-See page 36. MR. A. M. WORTHINGTON, ARCHITECT.

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S'*' ' s r t r V T f i r i r a m t d rr' a „ THE ^aU ? °ne of the most neglected parts of tbe Roads and houses, l i r K / A M E R I C A N house, though m some respects it is the portion most Perfect agreeableness in a subu b B U I L D I N G M O N T H L Y £requcntly llSed’ and £t is certainly the part the had Without perfect unity in every part ^ be __________________________________________________stranger is most apt to see. In the country house, belongs as naturally on a good ro S°°d b°USe where one is not restricted to the exacting require- does in a church Mean* aS a sood mau ESTABLISHED 1885 ments of a twenty-foot lot,the size and disposition ofthe tion of all building operations in th^-t1 ^ f°Un<ia' $2.50 a Year. Single Conies, 25 Cents hall is a problem easily solved. In such houses the hall The road comes before the house ® ° r country. --------------------- becomes, quite naturally, a room, and may be treated in tiveness or lack of attractions will let ^ °Wn attrac' MUNN (SI CO., Editors and Proprietors a manner at once comfortable, hospitable, and attractive. acter of the edifices erected upon it 61 mme tke ebar- No. 361 Broadway, New York But in the city house, where the hall is too often sim- The foundation of a good road is ................ -...- Pty a Passage, that is used only because it must be, and It must be firm and strong, well made p r°ad bed' NEW YORK, FEBRUARY, 1902 fronl whlch one eagerly Passes into the more attrac- quickly rid of water after a rain and f°r’ — ■ tive Parts of the house, it is generally neglected. As dusty in drought. It must be strone n Qry ^ CONTENTS a matter 0f fact’ the hall> belng the flrst part of the a11 sorts of traffic, from heavy truckstolS i° E T house to be entered, should be as cheerful and pleasant carriages. And it is further essential n ?£easure cLCs\n°utRHm Mass0' T ™ T .’. 21 “ P°SSible’ ^ Wal1 treatment Sb°Uld take int° aC' ls met by assessments on the adjacen^rleL * T i Monthly Comment: Fire Tests in New York.—The C°Uat amount of light and the fact that it is more be not too costly. These are elemental conditions that Hall and its Treatment.—American High likely to be rubbed against and soiled than the walls must be met and solved before any sort of a • a£ Buildings in London.—The “ Model City” for of large rooms. A table for packages and hats will be built; and the success of the hn,,™ +>1 ro. can St. Louis.—Good and Bad Art......................... 22 be found sometimes more useful than a hat rack, al- der it must depend on what i« rinrm i„ +1 u Wl11 bor' Roads and Houses....................................................... 22 _______ ... . , , , „ 11 mubL uePena °n what is done m the beginning- Fire Waste in 1900 ..................................................... 22 thougl1 accommodations for coats and umbrellas are The suburban road, however, must be more Use of Formal Shrubs for Garden Decoration........ 23 imperative. Hall furniture is not always as well suited simple means of communication and do an a “Tragedy of Architecture.”........................................ 23 to its purposes as it should be, but better designs are answer the needs of the traffic that ,,m°re tban 4°Me,i'MedT?Val Towers and Castles of Italy.......... 33 now on the market than could formerly be had. The When the roads for a suburban ™ passes over it. A Modern Doorway..................................................... 36 ... , . ■ , . , . ,, vvneu me ioaas 101 a suburban community are lam A Residence at Fanwood, N. J.............................. 36 1!’ wblle available for pictures, should not be made out they must first of all form an artistic Dlan An English Villa at Ogontz, Pa.................................. 36 a catcli-all, where ornaments may be placed that do whole. The corners must not be too & A Dwelling at South Haven, Mich............................ 36 not fit in elsewhere. must he nn awirwarun, =bor,„u 1 . pt’ tkere A Residence at Bridgeport, Conn.............................. 36 , , ° awkwafdly shaped lots, grades must be A Stone Residence at Merion, Pa............................ 36 avoided when possible, the needs of the future must A Group of Artistic Roads ........................................ 36 rr.„.„ .__. „ . . „ „ . , be thought of. The first step in road embellishment A Residence at Prospect Park South, Brooklyn, merican invasion of Europe is about to assume a good plan N. Y......................................................................... 36 architectural form in the erection of a great office „ „„„„„„ . ,, . A Model Dwelling at Glenside, Pa............................ 37 building in London. It is a type of structure wholly ,, . , -c ones e sidewalks and trees, A Residence at Allenhurst, N. J.............................. 37 new to England, although the building laws will not l borders of grass and lawn, the planting of shrubs A Residence at Chestnut Hill. Mass......................... 37 „,,ooor,+ Q „ + ^ , . and flowers and such other ornamental additions ns The Architect and the Small House......................... 37 £ f ™ 1’ permit a gleater be?fht tban seyen stories- may be available. Some illustrations are Z ,1 Legal Decisions: Architect’s List of Extras as Evi- But the mere matter of a building law contains no wb in this magazinP of „nhl11,h„„ rn . 8 a se_ dence.—Assumption of Risk.—Consent of detriments to Yankee ingenuity, and it is confidently , , g . . an oads> aa<i only Owner to Improvements.—Costs and Attor- stated that, in a few years, modifications of existing t glance at J;he engravings is needed to demonstrate neys Fees.—Custom as to Scaffolding.—Lia- renuirement« will be bna Q bow mucb the roadway and its adjuncts help in the bility of Contractor for Negligence.—Limit of Q ® f 11 be had wbich wl11 enable the pro- general effect. In the road at 0gontz every advantage Lien for Services.—One in Possession Not lectors of the enterprise to erect a genuine American b b t k f thp tage Necessarily the Owner ...................................... 37 sky scraper. It is to be hoped that if this is done, it ITlnl taken of *he "atural surroundings. The Talks with Architects: No. 13.—Mr. William J. will not be on the New York model. The art of high grades are sllght and not more than are needful to E « the.NeW. ! enement.H0USe.La!.!n 38 build^ design is most industriously practised in the ^ ^ °n aSC®nt and d“ - The New Books: The Art of Building a Home.—Old metropolis of America, with the result that the only , .J11’ &n a S la an of grass Time Gardens......................... 38 genuinely artistic high office building in New York is SeparateS the walk fJ°“ the ™ad bed. A bank of Garden Notes: An Orchard of Beauty..................... 39 by a Chicago architect’ There are some other* nf gre6n agam surrounds the corner lot, which is in- Sanitation: Difficulties of Household Cleaning.—- merit ami i-eni int t -t • + , g cased with privet. The road needs trees, it is true Dusting in Railroad Cars.-Free Water in mellt and real mterest, it is true, but the Chicago-de- but the ol(Jer treeg th flourlshed here b ’ " “ 1 American Cities.—Gas in Rooms.—Plumbing signed building has, after four or five years, no rival. -t t f i -n- " , the site and Heating in Germany ................................ 39 London authorities may well shrink before giving per- T f , building purposes have beer re- Household Notes: Cozy Corner Deviations.—1The mission for the erection of a New York sky scraper- tai“ d .“ far &S 1 ®y C°Uld be’ and the newer trees- Home m the East Side/—A New Use for India ihai. + , , . ., . . p ’ just within the house lot, will grow and shade the Shawls.—The Public Laundry in Philadelphia. 39 that Structure bas only lts blgness and lts convenience in f 8Me t!le New Building Patents.................................................. 40 to recommend it; of art, as such, there is little if any. . . ,. ,, _ . , Publishing Department: Acetylene Gas.—Steel And dben’ tbe roa<lway finished, with its walks and Rolling Doors, Shutters, and Partitions.......... 40 strips of green, its trees and well-kept borders, comes = ------ ■ ■ = Many flourishes of trumpets have announced a model Ule disb°sition bf the houses. Here, too, the view MONTHLY COMMENT city as °f the attractions of the St. Louis Exposi- ^ Ogont* teac1^ an impressive lesson, for the houses MONTHLY COMMENT. ^ It ,g Qulte time wg ha(J guch an object.lesson> are irregularly disposed as they ought to be on a road The results of a series of tests of fireproof parti- and as no American city has yet been able to put itself Wlth graceful cllrves- and Wltb a graceful languor in its tions, conducted by the Department of Buildings for forward as a model town it may be presumed at the movements as tbougb not in to° great haste to reach the Boroughs of Manhattan and the Bronx, have been outset, that it will be quite unlike any existing com ltS P°mt °f °rlgm °r °f furthest development. Squarely recently made public. The object of the tests was “ to munity. A sad controversy that seems to have arisen S6t ’ l0tS °f a Single Size’ rigidity’ a11 tbese lecord the effect of fire of one hour’s duration, com- over the question as to who first made this suggestion pamful elements are ignored in this plan, which is mencmg at 500“ F. and increasing to 1,700“ F„ fol- adds to the interest of the preliminary discussion and ad“ lrable’ ^ lowed by the application of water for two and a half will doubtless have no effect in giving us the final model a S m th® n6Wly laid’°ut streets °f Pr°Spect Park minutes on the fire side. The area of each partition results. That American cities need many radical im- °^ ’ Brooklyn’ carry on tbe lesson further. There under investigation was to be at least 137.75 square provements, that they are badly planned badly pro- 18 fT® S6neral Plan’ °f & r0adWay Witt SideWalkS feet, with a width of 14 feet 6 inches and a height of vided with underground conveniences, fill’ed with un- Separabed by striPs of grass- tke grass striPs 9 feet 6 inches. The tests were notable not only for healthy, undesirable buildings and generally in need ^ W ^ ^ ShrubS and flower-beds add to tke the care taken m conducting them, but as being the 0f object lessons, are facts that no one will dispute pict™'es1ue effect- Here> also, is a young community first thorough tests of partitions ever made. Nearly The project of a model city is, however a large under- the treeS have not yet begun to grow’ but twenty forms of partitions were included, the types taking, and is not likely to succeed even nartiallv Wh,Cb before long wil1 be amply shaded by the growth represented comprising metal, lath and plaster, terra without the widest consideration and the broadest ?f already Senerously planted. The ground is cotta block, plaster composition block, and concrete study. A city is not an aggregation of houses de 1<5Ve1’ and therefore there are 110 grades; and the Pb signed by an architect, erected on streets planned by an aFe st"aight and bence tbe bouses are placed The results, as a whole, were highly satisfactory, engineer, and provided with the resources of modern ^ Squarely upon tllem- Bllt formal as this may but while the utmost care was taken to submit the sanitation; but it is the grouping together of a large S6em’ th® general efEect is not formal, but full of grace, various constructions to the severe requirements laid number of people having many different purposes in Charm’ ^ movement down at the outset, it was impossible to avoid certain life and engaged in many avocations. To condense all D Sti11 anotber type of road is furnished in Albemarle conditions which make the conclusions partly theo- these interests within model limits and incase them “ the Same settlement The founders of this retical. The partitions examined were built directly in modei structures designed in a model way is cer COmmunity have realized the value of grand dimen- on a low wall of brick, without wood at the base, and tainly a model object that the to-be-modeled populace S1°nSi n °Utd°0r ai't; and in the last‘named street hnve included no window or door openings. The area tested, of America must await with the utmost interest Provided great centerpieces, with shrubs and flowers, moreover, was limited, and hence the conditions which ’ tha-t help in the general result. It is a beautiful and aPPly practically in every structure were not quite delightful way in which to make a roadway. It is a accurately present. With but one exception neither Does good art cost more than bad art? The question direct encouragement to good architecture to build file nor water passed through a partition, and in no involves a contradiction, for the moment a thing be- roads such as this, instance did a dangerous quantity of radiated heat comes bad it ceases to be a work of art. Logically pass through any partition. The plaster block parti- there can be no such thing as bad art, for it is not art FIRE WASTE IN 1900. tions lost a portion of their plaster blocks by being at all if it be bad. But the exigencies of language are The rpview nf tun tt •* a q+ t ~ eWxaaSmSesaWoT c U T T ^ ^ ^ ^ “ a -venient during 1900, as given were washed away exposing be hol d 3 ! ^ f°" expr?SSlng a state of tbings tbat every one suggestive. The classification is so complete as to give would^herefore^e^as^hough^ln^nartHion^oT^b T T °J’ ^ M ^ ^ ^ Supporters’ underwriters a fair idea of what it has cost to carry would therefore seem as though, m partitions of those abettors, and producers. So far as money outlay is the various classes of risks in the United states The types, new construction would be necessary after a fire concerned good art should cost more than bad art. The summary 109 SI^ fires n UnRed states' t v ” rttr h;s hire- « he w j rz z away, Hut no injury resulted to tile metal structure. In good art tenure economlSTthanbaa art rtnc'eTJi “ d b“ ra,nE-h'",s“ «-2 ">CT “ ”t' of *>“ ,... ^ oinicai Liia-ii Ds,cl &rt, since it lnsts pronertv burned The lo^^ec; "hv evnnmirp were 27 "ner partitions of terra cotta blocks and concrete blocks the longer, and after a period of years may have an en- cent of the whole The Toss in vaNe Imounted to inside coatings of p aster were partly destroyed, hut hanced value, while the object in bad art will have suf- $161,000,000 June was thr moT disastrous month no other injury resulted. Measured by cost of repair fered a total eclipse and be a complete loss. The finan- the property loss being $19 065 240 rcrm irrpT ;reryevidentanaoffersnoroom r : ^ s tsln~ e i ye’a r s For a long time the formal gardensLhfchLo a In the views reproduced, representing “ The Ter- and occasional replanting lias been kept in the low in such numbers and in such high nerf^t- • races” in a garden at Llewellyn Park, Orange, N. J.,box and regular shape shown in the photographs, land and in Italy have been greatlv ^ 111 EnS- and cypress have been extensively used. The color The garden shown in the photographs is located ican travelers, but it is onlv vew \ fi mer‘ ef£ects have been produced by varying golden cypress on a terrace situated on the steep slope o la effort has been made to carrv out WUh the silver or gray-green variety. The cypress is Mountain. The landscape effect is lathei unusual, dening in this country With thr.°U- ^ Style °f Sar" also used ln some of the low plateaus or beds which as nine terraces are located back of the mansion an and garden, with its maerifipont 1,°n °f tbe park may be seen within the box border. Juniper was rise one above another almost to the top of the of curiously shaned C<L ,and, abundant array tried, but, although it is an attractive shrub, it is very mountain. As the direct ascent would be almost too Mr.H H Hun ne well atw i, . ’ belonginS to difficult to transplant with any success, and many steep for a path, the summer-house located on the has been made to L I 7 ^ Uttle attempt of these shrubs were lost. Juniper can hardly be upper terrace is reached by a flight of rustic steps work until within ti i T*3 hlS species of landscape recommended for general use. All of the shrubs in which start from the main entrance of the mansion, that in the I t • ® }&St fear or tW0‘ xt is Possible this garden are hardy, with the exception of the bay The terraces are banked with turf, while the border of character nf '-L ' • ldS . >een considered that this trees, which are used at different points on the terrace, each terrace is laid out with flowering plants in oidei rugged \ Sai e.ning dld not harmonize with our and the tubs in which they are placed are concealed to relieve the green background with a strong con­ it did lo t f landscape, or it is possible that by flowering plants which are placed about them. The trast of color. The effect from the driveway below to A • Seem t0 .nd ltself esPecially as an adjunct golden box has been used with very good effect in is quite interesting, owing to the novelty of the treat- 10 American architecture. ment employed, while the With the introduction, how- view from the summer- cvcr, of foreign influences house in looking down upon in ennui M-t ion with country the terraces below prn- liunu's, tbo laying out of A;*". duces an entirely distinct. s,'ff and formal parterres and separate impression. ' 1 " dnlit'. H | i ,*• and not u. few areliiteets “ THE TRAGEDY OF ABCH1 Imvo appi-oeiated this fact. 1' TECTURE.” and have seized upon this rajffiggifed ' ■■t I n modern architecture, method of carrying out a j§§& ' ' j TiFyV‘* remarks Mr. Guy Wilfrid general scheme of embel- Haylor. in a suggestive lishment, in which the art article in the Westminster of the architect and the Review, the despotism of science of the gardener are I 1 arbitrary style is no less happily combined. HBfcy j ' Jr* idiotic and offensive than N oti Ii.-ippv illustral ion * j". . i- 4 . * ■ ■ 111 de • < >n• ■ i •. !•• "i I! iii I , v S building is in vogue now, supplementing architectural then another, just because effect can be cited than the *LfC *f- w e want something fresh, beautiful residence of Mr. JH j not because one or the Giraud Foster, at Lenox. ^ IkW #- ' other is more suited to the Mass., in which the archi- J"iS B nature and purposes of the tectural effect of the man- SR building, or better adapted sion relies for Its charm, ’>"■ clumiir.. not onlj upon the beautiful ................... "ur modern civ location selected for a site, ilization. provided, as it is, with a The Introduction of va- background of forest trees, SBSSSBBS^SBBBSSBBBBSSBBSBBBBBm S^B S BBBiIP ________• riety into architecture of but the beauty of ONE OF “ THE TERRACES” AT LLEWELLYN PARK, ORANGE, N. J. C°',llSeK ^ COmm®nd which has been great- able, hut only where tirely unadapted to A FORMAL GARDEN AT LLEWELLYN PARK, ORANGE, N. J. are Permitted and American soil and even encouraged, evi- ,. , con(jitions. The yew will grow in American forming crescents and diamond-shaped plateaus. It dently because they are the latest or most modern. c 1 the washingtonia variety is about the only is hardy, and assumes a beautiful golden luster when at In the congested and break-neck state of our pres- y01 ' of ew which seems to flourish to any extent. This its best. The umbrella pine from Japan is also a ent civilization, what should he the legitimate influ- I^ IL in ly a great disappointment to any one who beautiful tree, which grows in a regular shape when ence of natural conditions on architecture is quite 1S c obtain the interesting effects that one will properly looked after. neglected. Prior to the great industrial revolution expef . an English garden. It is a scraggy, un- In laying out a garden of this character, care should which was the characterizing feature of the Victorian often n ru^ an(j jj. wm not lend itself to taking be taken to Introduce at different points color effects era, architecture had only problems presented by na- attractive s except after years of careful growth for purposes of contrast. In order to introduce bril- ture to face; life was simple, and what artificiality ex- an attiac i g ^ox .g a ^ar more available shrub liant reds and yellows, alternanthera has been psed in isted was little and inconsequential. But with the in- and priming- experiment here. It is hardy; it is carrying out the geometrical designs which may be troduction of machinery, mechanical contrivances en- with whu i ^ trimmed into almost any shape, noticed in some of the beds. It may be of interest to tered intimately into every-day life, revolutionizing all luxuriant, it ™aca^.jong ^ grows quite rapidly. It is the reader to know that the photographs were taken forms of building and bringing about untold com- and in many • unjegg a garden is being laid out only three months after the garden had been laid out, plexity in architectural problems. Steam, electricity, rich in tone, an .g propai3iy the most satis- and they, therefore, give a fair idea of what may be and free education produced a society different to on a very laige uge Qf jn order to quickly ob- done with careful handling in a short time. It should any that had previously existed. The ends of the earth factory shrub to cypress is also a shrub which he remarked, however, that the box bordering the were united, and the most tremendous action and re­ tain formal Qur cjjmate. paths is some thirty years old, but by careful pruning action came into play, 7 ‘' '■ ■ -r lp » ~ , ,J**^^** ‘ i f - ' " " j § p & | 1 -I T JBj|p^!* ’"'*«& " * ~* '7. ^» * mW -ggg s-kp gaps ^BagBp^ % SHr- -.^pllF^jcS Z.T? j r * " * * a f e i f e ~ i ~ L ^ X - *'*'<stl? ". . - <- wr^m- ^BBjlMB|^j|^ 77 u:. ^^S*f rmsmm* ■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■MBBBBBBBBBflRBBBBB11 flH B H BflHBBHBBBIBBBBBjVjB 6 ^ ^ yji ^ III &?a? ^ “ n ia £ z.w A „ l g Jm " || D/n /a/q ipoo/z. ----------- -----’-^------- £>£-0 @OOrL I | =:*— Q , I h i f a r j H J l , § r j e I w m I ^nLL r ^ faLL jf\//Nf Rook. I &znH?oo^L. B “ —---------- e/o ^ o^ oorL || /</ X/" I /V 2X/" Te/a ~~| G/o | 75r£. l /3 YX/& 9 &r L. iAkrn r>Fb -5 ■ *-------i - « ...|... .. B ------- * ■ ______ ^ = ^ = t= . m F™ F°°* acooN ofooR a E g g ] A RESIDENCE AT FANWOOD, N. J.-See page 36. MR. ABNER J. HAYDELL, ARCHITECT. * ^ ‘oicoA/n /Too/S- pkirJToof^ ' T " - * I — I S--- U u u V txfl. ^ ^ ^ j ^ ^/N,N$ ®oorL ;6W. _________________ ■ ■ m — ------- in ________ /_>_ F^TrfToOR. A DWELLING AT SOUTH HAVEN, MICH.-See page 36. MR. A. M. WORTHINGTON, ARCHITECT.

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