Evening Republican, Volume 14, Number 27, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 1 February 1910 — BUNGALOW ON STILTS. [ARTICLE]

BUNGALOW ON STILTS.

Novel Ilot-Seuaon Home to Be Erected at Greiit River, L, I. A bungalow on stilts is to be erected in Great River, L. 1., adjoining the estates of W. K.‘ Vanderbilt, Jr., Bayard Cutting, Frederick Bourne and other wealthy mien. Undoubtedly it will be the oddest hot-weather residence ever constructed. It is to be built by Harry de Bow Barnes, who has an office in the Marbridge building, at 34th street and fith avoiAie, and who lives in the Bronx, the New York World says. He engaged W. H. Buckhout, a Haeksack architect, to prepare the plans. Mr. Buckhout described them last, night in this way: "Four hollow steel poles or masts, each forty-five feet in length and eight inches in diameter., will support a platfobm twenty-five feet square. The poles pass through the corners of tha platform for five feet and act as a brace for the bungalow that is built upon the platform. A spiral staircase gives access to the bungalow through the mediu»m of a door in the under side of the platform. This stairway is fitted with a gateway that can be clc pd at will by the occupants of the bungalow, so as to shut out undesirable callers. “Both the platform and the biingalow are to be of seasoned oak. The structure itself will be fitted with all sorts of hot-weather conveniences. Every precaution will be taken to insure the safety of its occupants from winds and thunderstorms. It will also be /fitted with an anti-swaying device that has been invented by Mr. Barne3 himself.” If the experiment turns out to be a success, as Mr. Barnes believes it will, it is possible that bungalows on stilts will become popular.