. The house: a manual of rural architecture: or, How to build country houses and out-buildings .. . Hiii^riiii Fbont Elevation, dition in life. For less expensive farm-houses, almost any ofour cottage designs, with slight alterations, will serve. F A E ]Nr - 110 U S E S 101 The prominent fecature^ of tliis design are its great extent ontlie ground, compared with tliat of the second story; com-pactness in the arrangement of the rooms; and the compara-Fig. G9. ^,~.-. SiDE Elevatiox. tive prominence given to the kitchen and its offices; all ofwhi^h promote the saving of labor and indicate adaptat
. The house: a manual of rural architecture: or, How to build country houses and out-buildings .. . Hiii^riiii Fbont Elevation, dition in life. For less expensive farm-houses, almost any ofour cottage designs, with slight alterations, will serve. F A E ]Nr - 110 U S E S 101 The prominent fecature^ of tliis design are its great extent ontlie ground, compared with tliat of the second story; com-pactness in the arrangement of the rooms; and the compara-Fig. G9. ^,~.-. SiDE Elevatiox. tive prominence given to the kitchen and its offices; all ofwhi^h promote the saving of labor and indicate adaptation tothe uses of a farm-house. » The front hall and back hall, vritli their respective entrances,are separated, so that the front hall, parlor, family bedroom, Fig. 70. i \ . liv!k°room I 5ACK HALL 1?.>^8 I or sitting room (accordingto the use which may bemade of it) may alwaysbe kept clean and tVoofrom unnecessary contactAvith the evei-y-day workof the house; while theback hall serves for all thecommon uses of the house-hold. At the same timethe ventilation and cool-ness of the whole in sum-mer is secured by openingthe door by which the halls communicate. The kitchen, dairyand other domestic offices, it will be seen, are admirably situ-
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