The Boston Cooking School magazine of culinary science and domestic economics . evidence of progress is, ofcourse, but the outward index to a morehighly cultivated taste on the housebuilders part and to a greater desirefor simplicity on the part of the archi-tects. A striking instance of this up-ward trend of architecture is found inthe little home, which Mr. PhiHp has recently erected nearWeston, Massachusetts. The situation is ideal, for the housenestles in the midst of a miniatureforest, half way up a great rugged hill;and from this vantage point the ownersof the house have an e
The Boston Cooking School magazine of culinary science and domestic economics . evidence of progress is, ofcourse, but the outward index to a morehighly cultivated taste on the housebuilders part and to a greater desirefor simplicity on the part of the archi-tects. A striking instance of this up-ward trend of architecture is found inthe little home, which Mr. PhiHp has recently erected nearWeston, Massachusetts. The situation is ideal, for the housenestles in the midst of a miniatureforest, half way up a great rugged hill;and from this vantage point the ownersof the house have an ever delightful panoramic view of fertile valley anddistant hill. Attractive as the site undoubtedlyis, its unusual character might havebeen just the stumbling block for anunskilled architect. However, withoutdestroying any of Natures handiworkin a vain effort to reconstruct the siteto suit a given type of house, the archi-tects associated in the work graduallyevolved a small house, which in designis so admirably adapted to its situationthat it appears almost indigenous — a. ENTRANCE HALL 347 348 THE BOSTON COOKING-SCHOOL MAGAZINE ^^^sS^V^flF .^V^B^^^Ik^^^^B ?^, ^.. ^•fc * v^* .?^Ty .,•/ ^K^HkSHL^iHI^S^Bll^BWHD^B^ •f| ^^S*^-^ --V -^ia ?i^^ --fMt ,... ^t^^^Bt=i^B=::z=~=^^^^^^^^^^ m ^ ^^^^4- ? FRONT VIEW house, furthermore, whose interior ar-rangement also eloquently points tothe architects conscientious study. As one instinctively expects in NewEngland, the Spaulding house is offrame construction; but the conven-tional painted-clapboard or stained-shingle exterior has here given awayto wide cypress siding, stained a deep,warm brown, the exterior trim beingpainted a soft olive green. The choiceof brown and green — two colors thatare so closely identified with Naturespalette — has, of course, still furtherlinked the house with its beautifulsetting. Although the contour of the sitenecessitated one end of the basementbeing practically above grade, the low,broad lines of t
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