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Page 8 "The Virginia", in real estate-ese, might be described as "rustic yet refined". It lacks indoor plumbing but boasts an over-sized china closet off the diningroom. "The Baldwin", medium sized but at the upper end of the price scale ($2,600 - $2,800) has both a parlor and a sitting room, but still no bathroom. The top of the line "Pontiac" costs $3,200 - $3,400. Named after the American Indian Chief of the Ottawa tribe, it is curious to note that the 'porch’, in this plan is referred to as a veranda - a word that comes to us from India. And, yes there is a bathroom - upstairs. "The Country Cottage" is a misnomer. This house is only slightly smaller than "The Pontiac" and a couple of thousand lower in price. It has the same 3 bedrooms as "The Pontiac" but no bathroom. Think thin with "The Drake". This house at 24' x 53' is more than twice as long as it is wide. Along with the standard rooms, there is a vestibule and a hall; a bathroom on the main floor and FIVE bedrooms upstairs, one with a balcony. Forget it being 'skinny', at $2,900 - $3,000, the price is right. A battalion could bivouac on the porch of "The Minnetonka" but the house itself is a disappointment. Impressive looking it is, but impractical. It has a kitchen, chamber and TWO livingrooms on the main floor - no diningroom, no vestibule, no china closet and no bathroom. By the time vje reach "The Foster"*, there's something of the 1990s emerging. Bigger (44' x 48') and costlier ($3,000 - $3,100), the house is dominated by two, two-storied hexagonal turrets. There's a grander china closet but no bathroom. Neither the biggest nor the best, "The American" is, at $500, one of the cheapest but oddly, this dolls' house (22' x 30') does have a bathroom .... could this have been the forerunner of American Standard? "The Pomeroy" is a puzzlement. Almost square (29' x 27'), it has a kitchen, livingroom, the three Ps - parlor, porch and pantry, a HUGE bay window but no bathroom and NO bedrooms! Available at $1,000, this could be hard to sell. Even the humble "Workingman" at $400 - $500 comes with two bedrooms. Fred T. Hodgson's book was published in Chicago in the summer of 1902. Edward VII was on the throne of England and the eclectic Victorian style of architecture was on the wane. Cluttered detail and overuse of turrets, bays and towers were about to be put to rest forever - or were they? Just look around at what the developers are putting up these days. The popularity of turrets, bays and towers abounds but the skills Fred Hodgson expected of his one and a half million carpenters, joiners and wood-workingmen have almost disappeared. Rarely does one hear on a job-site the grating sounds of concrete being mixed by hand. Instead, ready mixed concrete pours from trucks like Devonshire cream and the bang, bang, bang of precision hammering has given way to the firing of air-powered staple guns. * Two-storied, hexagonal turret - 1991 style