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 . ck from the road, width of itsfront, and the kind of building that will be in associ-ation with it, also, the grade of the grounds. Weknow this is troublesome, but it will be found to grounds are to be placed in artistic association,we must have the grades marked distinctly, and amap sent to us showing the plantation, which canalways be executed by a surveyor. This saves moneyin grading and
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 . ck from the road, width of itsfront, and the kind of building that will be in associ-ation with it, also, the grade of the grounds. Weknow this is troublesome, but it will be found to grounds are to be placed in artistic association,we must have the grades marked distinctly, and amap sent to us showing the plantation, which canalways be executed by a surveyor. This saves moneyin grading and forming the same into fine effect, asmany persons have fine plantations requiring butlittle to render them truly picturesque, with very littleoutlay, yet for want of practical knowledge, only ob-tained by experience and culture, they fail to obtainthe same, and often destroy what would be theirgreatest beauty. First Floor.—H, hall, 8 feet wide ; P, parlor, 12 by16 feet; D R, dining-room, 12 by 18 feet; K, kitchen,12 by 16 feet; S, shed, 8 by 12 feet; C, conservatory. Seco7id Floor.—C, chamber, 12 by 16 feet; C, chamber, 12 by 18 feet; C, chamber, 10 by 16 feet; H, hall.(226) DESIGN FIRST FLOOR. SECOND FLOOR.(227) DESIGN CIV. SUBURBAN RESIDENCE. This is a design of a Gothic villa, contains all the requisites of a first-class a suburban residence, or country mansion, it hasa refined, dignified, and substantial appearance, theplan having all the nobleness of the effect parlor is commodious and elegant, of the finestdecorations, and lighted, as it is, by bay-windows,the light will be thrown upon the walls, that paintingsand statuary may have full effect. By the use ofsliding doors, the main hall becomes a part of theparlor. It is intended to have a dumb-waiter in therear, so as to render the kitchen apartment perfect,as they are in the rear of the house and In slope of the grounds at the back of the buildingaffords fine ven
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