. Villas and cottages . attached to it, aswill be seen on the plan. It is also provided with aroomy pantry that has closets and a sliding hatchwayimmediately connecting with the kitchen. The mainstaircase is in a second hall, and under the upper land-ing is a large cloak-closet and an entrance to the gar-den. A little dressing, or lavatory room, is plannednear to this hall, and the servants staircase and pas-sage-way to the offices connects with the main build-ing at this point. The kitchen is in a wing on thesame level as the other part of the house, and has a VILLAS AND COTTAGES. 195 sink-ro
. Villas and cottages . attached to it, aswill be seen on the plan. It is also provided with aroomy pantry that has closets and a sliding hatchwayimmediately connecting with the kitchen. The mainstaircase is in a second hall, and under the upper land-ing is a large cloak-closet and an entrance to the gar-den. A little dressing, or lavatory room, is plannednear to this hall, and the servants staircase and pas-sage-way to the offices connects with the main build-ing at this point. The kitchen is in a wing on thesame level as the other part of the house, and has a VILLAS AND COTTAGES. 195 sink-room, pantry, and wood-house attached. It alsocontains a small separate stairway to two upper roomsfor men-servants. This house was built of wood filled in with brick,the principal rooms being provided with sliding-shut-ters ; and the carpenters and masons work for thisbuilding, and a coach-house, etc., including painting,was done for about $10,000, which, with architectscommission at five per cent., amounted to $10, An illustration of the river front is shown above,drawn to a somewhat larger scale than the perspectiveview, so that the arrangement of gable and mode offinish may be intelligible by a reference to the plan ofprincipal floor on previous page. The formal squareappearance it presents, compared with the actual effectof the villa in execution, or the other illustration ofthe same house already given, will serve to show howincomplete an idea is likely to be formed of an archi-tects design, if it is judged of from elevation only, andyet it is by no means uncommon to find this mode of 196 VILLAS AND COTTAGES. illustration adopted in architectural works in prefer-ence to any other. If a study for a house is proposedto be so drawn out that it may be used by builders forworking purposes, it is absolutely necessary that plans,elevations, and sections should be furnished, becauseno measurements can be taken from a perspectivedrawing, however neatly it may be done; but if th
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