Small houses done well, 1914 — eleven plates and a great many text cuts, from the years when the bungalow was winning.

A Little Home of Colonial Type

1 house in this part of The Book of Little Houses.

A Little Home of Colonial Type

WHERE the green Westchester hills slope to dip the white hem of their forest garb into the shining waters of Long Island Sound, and in the…

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