Evening Republican, Volume 20, Number 163, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 10 July 1916 — Self-Contained Houses. [ARTICLE]

Self-Contained Houses.

It has been suggested that architects could do a great deal toward improvement in city planning by encouraging owners to build self-con-tained houses—that is, structures that would contain the entire establishment ih-itself, whether it is a house of business or a factory, says Construction ’ News. Next to nature architects have more to do with making this world beautiful than any other agency, human or divine,; and it is a grave responsibility, and one sees about him every day evidences of one kind or another as to how they live or attempt to live up to it, particularly in the matter of a house, a self-con-tained establishment, thht is wholly a house without annexes, leantos or projecting parts, which, in a few years are used for such a wonderful combination of purposes that people wonder at the original Intention of the owner or the architect