meet the requirements of the modern standards of living. The best proof of this fact may be obtained by studying the residences published in the architectural magazines of about fifty years ago and comparing them with those appearing in more recent publications.
Monumental building in this country (excluding the skyscraper) may not yet have equalled the European standard, but this certainly cannot be said of the country house.
America now has traditions of its own for home building, but not so many years ago it was considered quite necessary to drag a French chateau or a Spanish or Italian villa up by the roots and plant it here in America, regardless of its surroundings, if one would have a residence of any pretentions whatsoever. Now, however, the architect, as well as the layman, has learned that we have in New England the inspiration for white clapboard houses that can be carried to the nth power if desired, and many of the most successful of our modern frame houses, although quite large and pretentious, were
inspired by this simple early New England work. Certainly the well designed, long, low, white clapboard house, set in proper foliage, has every requisite necessary to produce that charm which in houses corresponds to the “IT” which we hear so much of in connection with personality today.
Then in New York. Pennsylvania and Delaware we have the various forms of stone Colonial houses which are capable of being developed into glorified farm houses, not for farmers, but for the most fastidious people of today who still retain, however, a love for the hillside and valley and who object to the castles and palaces which the architects of a generation or two ago pronounced to be the only fitting habitation for a person of means.
In the neighborhood of Philadelphia there is the development of the English Cotswold stone house which, because of the beautiful ledge rock so plentiful in that vicinity, was a most logical development and one which fits well into the rolling country surrounding Philadelphia which is not unlike that found in some parts of England.
HOUSE OF WILLIAM L. CLAUSE, SEWICKLEY, PA.
CARL A. ZIEGLER, ARCHITECT
Monumental building in this country (excluding the skyscraper) may not yet have equalled the European standard, but this certainly cannot be said of the country house.
America now has traditions of its own for home building, but not so many years ago it was considered quite necessary to drag a French chateau or a Spanish or Italian villa up by the roots and plant it here in America, regardless of its surroundings, if one would have a residence of any pretentions whatsoever. Now, however, the architect, as well as the layman, has learned that we have in New England the inspiration for white clapboard houses that can be carried to the nth power if desired, and many of the most successful of our modern frame houses, although quite large and pretentious, were
inspired by this simple early New England work. Certainly the well designed, long, low, white clapboard house, set in proper foliage, has every requisite necessary to produce that charm which in houses corresponds to the “IT” which we hear so much of in connection with personality today.
Then in New York. Pennsylvania and Delaware we have the various forms of stone Colonial houses which are capable of being developed into glorified farm houses, not for farmers, but for the most fastidious people of today who still retain, however, a love for the hillside and valley and who object to the castles and palaces which the architects of a generation or two ago pronounced to be the only fitting habitation for a person of means.
In the neighborhood of Philadelphia there is the development of the English Cotswold stone house which, because of the beautiful ledge rock so plentiful in that vicinity, was a most logical development and one which fits well into the rolling country surrounding Philadelphia which is not unlike that found in some parts of England.
HOUSE OF WILLIAM L. CLAUSE, SEWICKLEY, PA.
CARL A. ZIEGLER, ARCHITECT