Mr. and Mrs. Don Riddle moved to the country knowing that they would have difficulty getting and keeping servants. Their house outside of Houston, Texas, was designed by architects John F. Staub and J. Thomas Rather, Jr., to run easily without servants. The compact plan also gave them the cross ventilation essential in humid climates. A screened porch (in the angle between the two bedrooms) is a cool, outdoor room for the Riddles and their daughter. Simply constructed, making economical use of local materials, the house has a concrete foundation; exterior walls and roof of cedar shingles; interiors finished in gypsum board and vertical pine, with a pine-beamed living-room ceiling. Due to mild winters no built-in heating system was needed.
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source: House and Garden Magazine | august 1951
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