"Many women do not like to sleep on the ground floor, being afraid to leave their windows open at night. With ridge-do…"

"Dormers may easily lose, in winter, the credit they gained in summer. ...If, however, they are properly made and secu…"

"It is hard to change long-established building habits; such habits sometimes endure for ages in certain localities wi…"

"When the necessity for shelter is great and the means for obtaining it scant, flimsy and makeshift methods of buildin…"

"From time to time a square has been opened here, a park there, a street cut through in one place or widened in anothe…"

"New York ought to have such an avenue like the Champs Elysées of Paris, Unter den Linden of Berlin, or the Ring Stras…"

"The object of this work is to improve the design and construction of small houses while reducing their cost."

"The most perfectly constructed object in nature, and also the most beautiful object in nature, is the human form as i…"

"In the human form, as nature tries to make it, every feature is useful and every feature is beautiful. Each member is…"

"One of the best ways to economize in building is to economize on ugliness. ...Nothing can be greater service in avoid…"