DOI issue:
Nr. 157 (March 1910)
DOI article:Architectural League exhibition
DOI Page / Citation link:https://doi.org/10.11588/diglit.19866#0115
An Attractive House of Moderate Cost
HOUSE OF WILLIAM R. WEBSTER, BRIDGEPORT, CONN. JOSEPH W. NORTHROP, ARCHITECT
surmounted by a mosaic of the Ascension, stands a A HOUSE of moderate cost in Bridgeport,
large statue of a saint. The carving of the reredos f\ Conn., designed by Joseph W. Northrop,
was in general elaborate. / % architect, appears in the illustration
Work of outstanding quality in public and semi- J. \. shown above. With a simple and un-
public buildings was shown by such architects as pretentious exterior and with compara-
Carrere & Hastings; McKim, Mead & White ; tively little assistance in surroundings, the architect
Delano & Aldrich; Cram, Goodhue & Ferguson; has succeeded in making a roomy, well-lighted
Howells & Stokes, and Swartout & Litchfield. building of a sensible and commendable type. By
In country-house designing Grosvenor Atterbury varying the wall surface in the two textures of brick
sent photographs of his attractive treatment of a and stucco and by the use of a broad, if somewhat
house at Bayberry Point, in which the building and high-pitched roof, he has minimized the height,
the garden walls sit snugly on the land in their some- which was probably a difficult but altogether essen-
what unusual setting. A house by Louis Boynton, tial feature of the scheme,
at Cedarhurst, L. I., displayed an effective use of an
upper outdoor room. The Earle house, by Frank r | ^ HE Wesson House, in Springfield, Mass.,
E. Wallis and W. J. Rogers, associated, was one of designed by Robins & Oakman for
several of their buildings shown in photographs '■ Frank H. Wesson, is in the residential
which indicated a facility for keeping to practical M. quarter of the town, but is removed suffi-
requirements without loss of distinction. Country ciently from the more crowded portions
houses by Mann & MacNeille included a well- to allow a certain amount of space surrounding the
devised exterior for the residence of E. J. Jewett, at buildings and thus secure an effective setting. The
Englewood, N. J. site, on the other hand, has been carefully studied,
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HOUSE OF WILLIAM R. WEBSTER, BRIDGEPORT, CONN. JOSEPH W. NORTHROP, ARCHITECT
surmounted by a mosaic of the Ascension, stands a A HOUSE of moderate cost in Bridgeport,
large statue of a saint. The carving of the reredos f\ Conn., designed by Joseph W. Northrop,
was in general elaborate. / % architect, appears in the illustration
Work of outstanding quality in public and semi- J. \. shown above. With a simple and un-
public buildings was shown by such architects as pretentious exterior and with compara-
Carrere & Hastings; McKim, Mead & White ; tively little assistance in surroundings, the architect
Delano & Aldrich; Cram, Goodhue & Ferguson; has succeeded in making a roomy, well-lighted
Howells & Stokes, and Swartout & Litchfield. building of a sensible and commendable type. By
In country-house designing Grosvenor Atterbury varying the wall surface in the two textures of brick
sent photographs of his attractive treatment of a and stucco and by the use of a broad, if somewhat
house at Bayberry Point, in which the building and high-pitched roof, he has minimized the height,
the garden walls sit snugly on the land in their some- which was probably a difficult but altogether essen-
what unusual setting. A house by Louis Boynton, tial feature of the scheme,
at Cedarhurst, L. I., displayed an effective use of an
upper outdoor room. The Earle house, by Frank r | ^ HE Wesson House, in Springfield, Mass.,
E. Wallis and W. J. Rogers, associated, was one of designed by Robins & Oakman for
several of their buildings shown in photographs '■ Frank H. Wesson, is in the residential
which indicated a facility for keeping to practical M. quarter of the town, but is removed suffi-
requirements without loss of distinction. Country ciently from the more crowded portions
houses by Mann & MacNeille included a well- to allow a certain amount of space surrounding the
devised exterior for the residence of E. J. Jewett, at buildings and thus secure an effective setting. The
Englewood, N. J. site, on the other hand, has been carefully studied,
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