Excerpt from White Pine, Vol. 3: Series of Architectural Monograph, a White Pine House
In making the judgment, the Jury, in accordance with the terms of the program, considered first the architectural merit of the various designs, and found to their regret that by so doing most of the houses which were located on the plot in the position which the Jury deemed to be the best were not of sufficient architectural excellence to be considered. The Jury was unanimous in believing that the house should be located toward the rear of the plot, with the service wing and a possible garage at the interior corner; the main rooms and the gardening or other development of the grounds toward the Main Street to the South, with the entrance road to the house and garage at the North. This would have given convenient access for automobile traffic to the station, and would also have given proper light, air and outlook to the principal rooms. The plans finally selected by the Jury for the first and second places were those which were placed toward the front of the lot, with the gardens at the rear, but were so arranged that certain of the rooms had both good light and air to the South and in part a good outlook to the North over the garden.
The Jury, after two sessions, were finally able to reduce the number of plans under consideration to twelve, and from these selected four which seemed, in respect to all the qualities mentioned under the heading "Judgment" in the program, to be of all-round superiority. The Jury found themselves unable to discriminate between the eight remaining designs and therefore decided to award all eight Mentions, instead of six, as specified in the program.
First Prize, Design No. 204: In regard to the first requirement of the judgment (the architectural merit of the design) the Jury considered that this competitor shows the combination of imagination and good taste essential to successful country house design in a greater degree than any other competitor. The placing of the house on the property is excellent, though not ideal; the treatment of the grounds, both as shown in perspective and as on the plot plan, is admirable. The details both of interior and exterior show intelligence and knowledge, and are of a type suitable to the limitation of cost. The plan of the first floor as regards the principal rooms and the placing of the porches is excellent. The space allotted the service portion is much too small and the arrangement is not good, but weighing these matters against similar features in other plans, this point was not thought sufficient to vitiate the other good qualities of the plan. The second floor is one of the best submitted. The rooms are of good size, thoroughly ventilated and the arrangement en suite of pairs of rooms on each end, with connections to bath rooms and to the sleeping porches, is most satisfactory. The waste of space in circulation is small and the treatment of the second floor corridor is such as to shorten its apparent length, as far as possible.
While the Jury thought there were a number of perspectives of at least equal merit from the point of view of rendering, they felt that this factor should not weigh in making a judgment and because this competitor shows a perception of charm and imagination to an unusual degree, the Jury was unanimous in awarding this design first place on all counts.
Second Prize, Design No. 224: This design was awarded the second prize for substantially the same reasons that the first prize was awarded to Design No. 204.
The placing of the house on the property is good and the architecture of the building is excellent. The Jury admired the treatment of the one-story wings extremely, although they regretted a certain heaviness in the dining porch detail, and felt also that the sleeping porch is too narrow. The position of the first-story toilet is undeniably bad, because of its conspicuousness and because it opens on the di. Это и многое другое вы найдете в книге White Pine, Vol. 3 (K. K. Stowell)