Excerpt from Building and Furnishing a Home The first thing that an architect tells you is that the last thing to think about when you go to plan a house is how the outside will look. For a good many years Dorothy Dix and other philosophers have been telling us much the same thing in regard to the selection Of husbands. But in spite Of this good advice as to the comparative unimportance of the facade, for a good many years to come women are going to go right on falling in, love with a man because of the way his hair and eye-lashes grow and buying houses because of their roof-lines, window-shutters, and cornice trim. In view of this natural fact Of feminine logic, we will begin our study of houses with a survey of architectural style. Instead of be ginning at the beginning in the best scholastic fashions, we will select several of the most popular styles and inquire into the causes for their being as they are. If we began our study with the earliest American houses we would encounter some very primitive structures - perhaps nothing more than windbreaks made by sticking branches into the ground. The first Americans, arriving here from Asia by way of the Behring Straits perhaps as long as years ago, did not bring much of an architectural heritage with them. Except for their babies and spears and dogs they brought very little indeed. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.