Six Ideas for a Single House Plan.

Progress, Volume XIII, Issue 4, 1 December 1917, Page 82

Six Ideas for a Single House Plan.

The accompanying illustration suggests six different exterior treatments for a single plan of a seven-room house. The designs are by Milton Dana Morrill, an American, architect. Each of the schemes might readily be worked out in concrete for walls and floors. The “Craftsman,” “Hip Roof New England” and “Dutch Colonial,” as the styles arc called, would ordinarily have frame roof construction, but the “Spanish” and “Oriental” houses should preferably be fireproof throughout with concrete roofs.

(2) The Board shall consist of the mayors of city and boroughs and chairmen of roadboards also of architects selected by the Institute of Architects, of engineers civil and electrical, of surveyors, of men representing commerce, art, labour, education, etc. (3) The plan or scheme shall be submitted to the Bocal bodies and when approved by them be brought before tne House in the form of a Bill. The Bill being passed no buildings shall be erected or roads laid out except in accordance with the scheme.” follows- League gives its own suggestions as follows: