Hobbs's architecture: containing designs and ground plans for villas, cottages and other edifices, both suburban and rural, adapted to the United StatesWith rules for criticism, and introduction . rds the great-est possible capacity, as the hall, dining-room, sitting-room, and parlor can be thrown into one grandroom, which, being connected with back and frontporches by windows running to the floor, containsa very large area, so that thirty sets of cotillions havedanced at one time. The kitchen apartments are en-tirely separate. It has been occupied for four years,and the owner has remarked tha
Hobbs's architecture: containing designs and ground plans for villas, cottages and other edifices, both suburban and rural, adapted to the United StatesWith rules for criticism, and introduction . rds the great-est possible capacity, as the hall, dining-room, sitting-room, and parlor can be thrown into one grandroom, which, being connected with back and frontporches by windows running to the floor, containsa very large area, so that thirty sets of cotillions havedanced at one time. The kitchen apartments are en-tirely separate. It has been occupied for four years,and the owner has remarked that if he were to buildanother house he would not alter, in a single par-ticular, any portion of it. The house cost the owner^15,000, but we will place it by the side of manycosting $30,000, for capacity and grand interior, aswell as largeness of external appearance. First Floor.—A, stair hall, 16 by 22 feet; B, parlor,18 by 30 feet; C, sitting-room, 16 by 22 feet; D,dining-room, 18 by 18 feet; E, kitchen, 13 by 18 feet;F, scullery, 6 by 10 feet 6 inches ; G, pantry, 6 by 7feet; H, porches. Second Floor,—K, chambers; L, bath-room ; M,linen-closet. 106) DESIGN XLIII.^nhirlratt Resilience,. FIR>.T FLOOR. FLOOR. [ 107 DESIGN XLIV. ORNAMENTAL COTTAGE. Before us Is a cheap and ornamental cottage,of small pretensions as to classical style, but of aclass largely built by those wishing the comforts ofa home upon a small capital. The cost of its erec-tion will not exceed $1500. It contains three rooms,parlor, dining-room, and kitchen, on the first floor,and three chambers on the second. The roof Is soconstructed as to admit of the circulation of airbetween the cornice and the roof as high as the ceil-ing : the upper part above the ceiling-joists, or collar-beam, affording a sufficient air-chamber, with a ven-tilator at each gable; one going down to within afew Inches of the collar-beams, and passing but asmall distance above the roof; the other being sev-eral feet higher, a
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