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 . burban residence was designedfor Mrs. Fahnstock, who was about building it whenshe died, and the work was abandoned. Since wehave published it in Godeys Ladies Book, thedesign has met with much favor, and we have madenumerous evolutions of the same idea, arranged, ofcourse, in each case to meet the wants of the partiesordering the drawings. It is always best for us tomake the full detail drawings for
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 . burban residence was designedfor Mrs. Fahnstock, who was about building it whenshe died, and the work was abandoned. Since wehave published it in Godeys Ladies Book, thedesign has met with much favor, and we have madenumerous evolutions of the same idea, arranged, ofcourse, in each case to meet the wants of the partiesordering the drawings. It is always best for us tomake the full detail drawings for these designs, asour experience with them is very great. There is norisk of ugliness when we make the detail drawingsfor our designs, as almost every locality over thisvast country fully proves ; and the amount of patron-age we receive fully attests their merits. It can bebuilt for ^7000. Desndption.—A, vestibule ; B, hall, 8 feet wide ; C,parlor, 14 by 22 feet; D, dining-room, 14 by 20 feet;E, sitting-room, 14 by 16 feet; F, china-closet, 7 by10 feet; G, pantry, 7 by 10 feet; H, kitchen, 14 by14 feet; I, back porch; J, wash-house, 10 feet 6inches by 10 feet 5 inches. (104) DESIGN GROUND PLAN. (105) DESIGN XLIII. SUBURBAN RESIDENCE. This beautiful cottage was designed and built forMr. Wm. Jackson, near Pittsburg, Pa., and is a verycommodious and comfortable residence. It is builton the slope of a hill, and entirely surrounded bylarge forest-trees. Its peculiar plan affords the great-est possible capacity, as the hall, dining-room, sitting-room, and parlor can be thrown into one grandroom, which, being connected with back and frontporches by windows running to the floor, containsa very large area, so that thirty sets of cotillions havedanced at one time. The kitchen apartments are en-tirely separate. It has been occupied for four years,and the owner has remarked that if he were to buildanother house he would not alter, in a single par-ticular, any portion of it. The ho
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