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A CRAFTSMAN CITY HOUSE DESIGNED FOR TWO FAMILIES
house was fixed at twenty-five feet, with a depth of sixty-eight feet, including a front porch nine feet in width. The first story is occupied by a tenant, the owner reserving the second floor for himself and his family.
It will be noticed by looking carefully at the floor plans that only the front porch, the vestibule and the rear entrance can be used in common by both families. There is no connection between the two apartments. One door from the vestibule opens to the stairway which leads to the second story and the other opens into the hall of the first story. Both stories are the same in arrangement and are planned to secure the greatest possible open-

37SECOND FLOOR PLAN.

ness and freedom of space in the living rooms. The large bedrooms at the back of the house open upon rear porches, which are glassed in for the winter and screened in summer to serve as outdoor sleeping rooms.
The floor plans themselves give the best idea of the arrangement of space in the apartments. Both kitchens are provided with gas stoves and individual boilers for hot water. A dumbwaiter runs from the cellar to the attic for the convenience of the upper apartment. The cellar contains individual store rooms and coal bins, and a big laundry with a set of three tubs and a stove was installed, together with a hot water heating system for the entire house. The attic is divided in a way that provides two rooms in the dormer for the servants of both apartments, as well as a large room facing the front that can be used as a dry room in inclement weather or as a play-room for children. The cellar walls are of concrete faced with split field stone.