Congenial neighborhood, safe playgrounds for the children, labor-saving devices for the housekeeper.
When first built they were in advance of anything in an eastern city of their class.

To-day Mr.Pratt has even more advanced ideas which will take form in the future.
[Illustration: Aerial-view Drawing: The Morris Building Company's Block of Single Houses, with Central Heating Plant, Brooklyn, New York.] These attractive and comfortable houses, so near the working places of the teachers and professional and business men who occupy them, were possible only because of the comparative cheapness of the land, which had been held undesirable for high-class single houses, not for sanitary reasons, but solely on account of social conditions.

This cluster of forty houses makes its own atmosphere.

This is the lesson to be learned.

Let groups of like-minded families make their own surroundings.