American homes and gardens . PLAN <OF -THE - JECOND - FLOOR. - The House Before it was Altered Showing the Old Porch in its Conventional Form at the Front of the House. OW to remodel a modern two-family houseinto a private dwelling, and to cultivate itssurrounding grounds into a beautiful gar-den, was the problem which the well knownBoston architect, Mr. L. S. Couch, had tosolve, when he remodeled his house andgarden at Danvers, Mass. The first problem was, of course,the house, which required skillful attention in order to pre-serve its outlines which were very good, andalso its gambrel roo
American homes and gardens . PLAN <OF -THE - JECOND - FLOOR. - The House Before it was Altered Showing the Old Porch in its Conventional Form at the Front of the House. OW to remodel a modern two-family houseinto a private dwelling, and to cultivate itssurrounding grounds into a beautiful gar-den, was the problem which the well knownBoston architect, Mr. L. S. Couch, had tosolve, when he remodeled his house andgarden at Danvers, Mass. The first problem was, of course,the house, which required skillful attention in order to pre-serve its outlines which were very good, andalso its gambrel roof of Dutch study of the elevations from the photo-graphs of the building as it was and as itnow is, will show that the amount of changehas not been excessive, and that the entireimprovements have been carried out in sym- pathy with the subject and its environments. The onlyvisible difference in the exterior is the changes made in theentrance porch; the old entrance porch being enclosed withglass, forming a sun-room with entrance to it from the liv-ing-room, while a new entrance porch was built at the cornerof the house. Access to this porch is obtained
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