1940. Architect Allen Ruoff designed this home for Mrs. L. R. Holmes, of Westwood, California.

WHAT DOES ONE do for privacy on the city lot? What does one do when neighboring houses crowd to the very lot lines? A hopeless proposition? Indeed not. This house is a practical answer! Architect Allen Ruoff solved these problems in designing this home for Mrs. L. R. Holmes, of Westwood, California. Suggestive of Colonial New Orleans, or of the Monterey of early California, is this white stone house. A wrought-iron railed balcony opens from the second-floor bedrooms. Horizontal white boarding contrasts with the stone. And tht two-car garage has louvered doors. In back are a partially inclosed patio-porch with fireplace for outdoor cooking, a formal rose garden, a grassy lawn thru a gate beyond. The garage on the street makes these gardens possible, and living-room, porch, library, and breakfast room all look out into them. No windows of any consequence open at the sides into the next-door houses, so there's a maximum of privacy for Mrs. Holmes and the neighbors.