European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - November 16, 1985, Darmstadt, Hesse Fame with Frank Lloyd Wright in 1981. Ulamor the family room Lor the decline of the front porch a room at the Back of the House with sliding door. Leading outside became the favored place Lor games and to and storing boots skis and ,." what about Romance that. I ventured York has been relegated 1o the certainly Iho car won out in Philadelphia when the Lor the new houses on Osage Avenue and Pino Street replacing the 61 wiped out in the recent helicopter bomb re it hurry of new housing starts architect York detects something of a comeback Lor the front porch for aesthetic but not practical reasons houses Are netting bigger now. Fewer bedrooms but larger rooms and fancier facades. There s lots of Money Aroundhe calculates a front porch pm a $90.000 House will Cost you about $15.000." a once that rules out the intricate Jigsaw Fretwork that earned the name car Penter but the old victorian front porch in nil its Curli cued grandeur All 900 icel of in lives on at the mount Washington hotel m Breton Wood 14 which could Lay claim to the Lineal porch in the land the glory of italian woodworkers the mount Washington s wraparound porch is limes around it to the mile has More open deck space than the of and a magnificent View of the while mountains presidential Range its Palud planks since opening Day in 190? have echoed the tread of Theodore Roosevelt. Thomas cd con. Winston Churchill and babe Ruth during the Trellon Woods monetary conference of 19-14 thai established the world Bank and set the Price of Gold at $3b an ounce. The porch s priceless White Wicker furniture was confidant to the whispers of economist John Maynard Keynes. Treasury Secretary Henry Morgenthau or. And Young Dean Acheson. In the Early Days the Wicker furniture was pushed Way Back against the Wall so people could promenade in the Moonlight in their dinner Imery related hotel historian Steve Smith who happily reports that Romance still blossoms with the plants along the railing. Honeymoon couples keep coming Back to have their pictures taken at the far end of the wherever it survives in weathered old Seaside houses Riverview mansions Moun Tarlop ranches Prairie farmhouses decaying plantations along dying Mam streets in mid America on the Charleston Battery or the new Orleans Garden District the vanishing Gran Deur of the american front porch should be checked with a preservation order Belore history turns its Back on a in Endler. More open society hand me that Fly swatter will you i. It Tiff Guyitt Eon relax with a Mountain View. Iber 16, 1985 the stars and stripes Page 15
