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A CEMENT HOUSE THAT SHOWS THE DECORATIVE USE OF CONCRETE AS A FRAMEWORK
Published in The Craftsman, January, 1907.
EXTERIOR VIEW. NOTE EFFECT OF RAISED FRAMEWORK OF CONCRETE AGAINST ROUGH-CAST PANELS.
ONE or the other of the more massive forms of construction seems to be called for by the design of this house, which was meant to be built either of concrete or of hollow cement blocks, and so is planned especially with a view to the use of one or the other of these materials. although the design would be equally well
24suited to stone or brick. Believing that a house built of cement or concrete should be exceedingly simple in design, with plain straight lines and unbroken wall surfaces, we have carried out this idea as consistently as possible.
No timbers are used on the outside of the house, but the form of the framework is