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Introduction

In this little book will be found pictures and descriptions of houses that have been built at costs varying from $1,500 to $10,000 in different sections of the country, together with building hints that have been regarded as of great value by the readers of The Countryside Magazine and Suburban Life, in which they have appeared.

All of the houses illustrated have actually been built and are not simply designs made as experiments. The authors of the articles reproduced include Elna Harwood Wharton, Charles E.

White, Jr., M. A. I. A. and Mary W. Mount, all of whom have had wide experience in dealing with house-planning and building subjects.

This compilation is offered with the hope that it will be of suggestive value to prospective builders of small houses. There is no expectation that any design will be suitable for reproduction exactly as it is here shown, but it is reasonable to assume that certain features of some of them will be thought worthy of incorporation in a new design that shall reflect the owner's tastes and requirements.

THE BOOK OF LITTLE HOUSES