Cottage residences : or, A series of designs for rural cottages and cottage villas, and their gardens and grounds Adapted to North America . [Figure 20.] consisting of four excellent sleeping apartments, each witha small closet attached. Two of these are of ample size, andas it might be desirable to many to have in them a greateramount of closet room, it may be easily obtained by makinga double partition between these apartments, which wouldallow of two large closets in the space thus formed. Thebedroom, twelve by twelve feet, over the hall, is a prettylodging apartment opening through a pictu
Cottage residences : or, A series of designs for rural cottages and cottage villas, and their gardens and grounds Adapted to North America . [Figure 20.] consisting of four excellent sleeping apartments, each witha small closet attached. Two of these are of ample size, andas it might be desirable to many to have in them a greateramount of closet room, it may be easily obtained by makinga double partition between these apartments, which wouldallow of two large closets in the space thus formed. Thebedroom, twelve by twelve feet, over the hall, is a prettylodging apartment opening through a picturesque old Englishoriel window on a balcony. The staircase shown in thisplan gives access to the attic, where two servants bedroomsare located COTTAGE RESIDENCES. 59 The basement accommodation, Fig. 21, shows an entranceinto the staircase passage by a descent of steps; a kitchen,. BASEMENT [Fig. and cellar of good dimensions, a servants sleeping room(which may be made a laundry if preferred), and a smallstore-room and wine-cellar conveniently located. The exterior of this dwelling is designed after the oldEnglish architecture of the Tudor era, a style replete withinteresting associations, as it is the genuine and most cha-racteristic mode of building long ago prevalent in the finestcountry-houses of England, associated by lay and legendten times told, with all that is brightest and noblest in thehistory of our mother country. It is highly picturesque,abounding in the finer specimens with a rich variety ofgables, turrets, buttresses, towers, and ornamental chimnev- 60 COTTAGE RESIDENCES. shafts, which form striking and spirited objects in domesticarchitecture, and harmonize agreeably with the hills andtree tops, and all the intricacy of outline in natural ob-jects. And finally the irregularity of its outlines, admittingfuture additions with facility, the su
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