. International studio. RESIDENCE OF WM. C. DE LANOY, HILLS, N. J. A COUNTRY HOUSE IN REINFORCEDCONCRETE One of the most notable and interest-ing recent examples of the successful useof reinforced concretefor building a countrydwellingis to be foundin the residence ofWilliam ,Esf]., at Short Hills,N. J. The owner, itis understood, was re-l)uilding after thecomplete loss of aformer house by fireand made it the firstrc(|uisite of his new-plans that the build-ing should be fire-proof in ilie strictestsense. Undoubtedlythe result is fire])roof,practically without(pialification.
. International studio. RESIDENCE OF WM. C. DE LANOY, HILLS, N. J. A COUNTRY HOUSE IN REINFORCEDCONCRETE One of the most notable and interest-ing recent examples of the successful useof reinforced concretefor building a countrydwellingis to be foundin the residence ofWilliam ,Esf]., at Short Hills,N. J. The owner, itis understood, was re-l)uilding after thecomplete loss of aformer house by fireand made it the firstrc(|uisite of his new-plans that the build-ing should be fire-proof in ilie strictestsense. Undoubtedlythe result is fire])roof,practically without(pialification. Vet it isone tiling to set uj) a .structurewhich,a|)art cornkr of its content.^, is dk lanoy house JOHN A. GURD, ARCHITECTBENJAMIN A. HOWES, ENGINT:ER unburnable; the feature that renders the De Lanoyhouse unusually interesting is the pleasing architec-tural quality secured by an intelligent acceptance ofthe characteristics of the material. Being all creatures of habit we are disposed to. INTERIOR DECORATIONSHY HOGGSON BROTHERS XCIV Country House in Reinforced Concrete scout the idea of changes. When concrete was pro-posed for serious architectural use the dictum wentforth from many respected quarters that thoughconcrete serv^ed perfectly for some structural pur-poses it would never do to look at. This train ofthought is, after all, very human. To-day, whenthe centenary of the Fulton steamboat is being cele-brated, we can recall as a quaint freak of reasoningthe elaborate proof made by a learned gentlemanonce that it would never be possible to propel a ves-sel all the way across the Atlantic by steam at the time this was probably not at all an un-reasonable conclusion. To-day nobody would seri-ously hold that it is a pity the learned argumentwas not accepted as closing the question and thatwe are not still receiving our mail and making ourtrips by packet. When we rush into a controversyprematurely and before a fair amount of data isaccessible, we usually
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