Property of Mr. and Mrs. Herbert C. Bergstrom | Feasterville, Pennsylvania | Architect Walter T. Robinson | Photos P. A. Dearborn

The  Herbert C. Bergstrom home is contemporary in design with little recall of any previous architectural style. Only in early western ranch houses do we find any comparison. Materials are used honestly and simply with no attempt at camouflaging their natural beauty. Its one-story exterior walls are of unfinished siding, eaves are wide and overhanging with rugged, exposed stone accents. An open car port, adjacent to the front entrance, can easily substitute for a covered porch, made doubly useful in combination with the living-room terrace. This is a home for two grownups and a school-age child. Two large bedrooms plus one small sleeping room are adequate to take care of the family's needs.

Since the most favored exposure is to the south, a living-room wall of glazed doors on this side brings in magnificent views of surrounding rolling hills. The living room also takes care of the bulk of the traffic-clever planning of doorways has restricted this traffic to one side. There's a separate entrance into the well-lighted kitchen, though this room can be reached, too, from the front hallway. Extra overnight guests, who might draft the living room as sleeping quarters, will find the entrance hall bathroom a convenient asset for privacy. In the basement, reached by stairs from either kitchen or living room, we find a root cellar, storage and heater room. The large living room also serves as eating quarters.

In fact, every square inch of this compact plan has been utilized in spite of the general rambling effect one gains upon first approaching the house.

This contemporary house is one of a group, built as a co-operative unit. Each house is different though materials are similar for better uniformity. These young couples and their families discovered that by pooling some of their resources, many advantages which as individuals they were not able to afford were theirs. Get-togethers on weekends provide a large part of the social life while craft projects help furnish the houses.