Evening Republican, Volume 21, Number 210, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 13 September 1918 — FOR UNIFORMITY IN BUILDING [ARTICLE]

FOR UNIFORMITY IN BUILDING

Wise Regulations Would Add Immensely to General Appearanceof the Town. The time is coming when restrictions on property will be even more rigid than at persent, but this will be much to the advantage of a community. It is not sufficient merely to. specify the class or cost of a building that may be erected on any one lot, nor to designate how far away from the street line it must be set. Restrictions should also govern the height and architecture of the buildings on each street. Then It would be impossible to build a towering residence of elephantine proportions beside of a beautiful little bungalow, and It would be Imposslle to build a bouse of strictly Dutch architecture. Our Igading architects have developed many pleasing styles of architecture, but their whole work is frequently spoiled through the construction of a home on a gtreet where the prevailing architecture is entirely different. There are streets In the newer sections of the city where many of the houses in a row are of the same architecture, though slightly varied in construction. This Is the most satisfactory plan, but of course cannot be followed out to the letter when a numbet of different architects and builders are working on houses on the same street —Boston Transcript.