Property of Architect and Mrs. Alexander Smith Cochran in Baltimore

 

If you have four children and a sizeable lot, it’s a good idea to organize their outdoor play space as carefully as their quarters indoors. This is the plan architect Alexander Smith Cochran worked out for his own family. On the generous site in Baltimore, he has included such second-generation essentials as a sandbox, a ball diamond, a “tenting ground,” all within voice range but not centered on the view from the wide living-room windows. Indoors, too, the house makes room for youthful exuberance. The playroom is large, has its own garden entrance and play terrace. Most of the lower story is floored with scuff-proof flagstone and asphalt tile; walls are natural plywood which tends to hide finger marks. Above you see the four youngsters—Sandy, Teddy, Gill and Carol—having their supper in the dining alcove of the large family kitchen. In conservative Maryland, which numbers among its treasures countless great Colonial houses, this modern house is winning friendly approval for its good sense, its frank recognition of the new informality of today’s living. 

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source: House and Garden Magazine | January 1951