Cottage residences; or, A series of designs for rural cottages and cottage villas, and their gardens and grounds . the inmates from the inside of the building. Devoting itto this purpose, a (Fig. 88) Avould lie the porch, h^ the entry,r, the living-room, </, bedioora or parlor, c, veranda, g^ back- 172 COTTAGE RKSIDENCES. entry, m, wood-Loiiso, J, back i-)orcli, li, pantiy, /, store-room, 7i, milk-room. Tliere is n bay window at o, with aBeat outside, n. The upper floor would be divided intotwo good-sized bed-rooms or three smaller Fig. 90. This building would look well of wood, put
Cottage residences; or, A series of designs for rural cottages and cottage villas, and their gardens and grounds . the inmates from the inside of the building. Devoting itto this purpose, a (Fig. 88) Avould lie the porch, h^ the entry,r, the living-room, </, bedioora or parlor, c, veranda, g^ back- 172 COTTAGE RKSIDENCES. entry, m, wood-Loiiso, J, back i-)orcli, li, pantiy, /, store-room, 7i, milk-room. Tliere is n bay window at o, with aBeat outside, n. The upper floor would be divided intotwo good-sized bed-rooms or three smaller Fig. 90. This building would look well of wood, put on in verticalboarding, and painted a warm drab color; or it would bemore pictuiesque if covered on the outside with shingles—in the manner of many of the Dutch farm-houses in theState of New York—which make a more dui-able coveringthan inch-boards. If the shingles were rounded on thelower edge, or cut into diamonds or hexagons, it would addstill more to their good effect at but a trifling increase ofexpense. The estimated cost of this building, of wood, is$930. [Present cost, $2,000.—Ed.] Figs. 89 and 90 show a sketch and ground plan of asmall toll-gate house or lodge, in a massive, simple archi-tectural style, quite opposite in character to the foregoing. COTTAGE RESIDENCES. 173 The whole is supposed to be built of iul)1jle-stone, and thecost, when this kind of stone is abundant upon the ground,would be about $500. [Present cost, $1,600.—Ed.] 174 COTTAGE KESIDENCES. DESIGN XIV. A Cottage in the Rhine Style. Tins residence w
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