. Modern farm buildings : being suggestions for the most approved ways of designing the cow barn, dairy, horse barn, hay barn, sheepcote, piggery, manure pit, chicken house, root cellar, ice house, and other buildings of the farm group, on practical, sanitary and artistic lines . ornment. The buildingshave been carried out in the simplest possible manner, withwide clapboards and shingle roofs and in the hope that theirgeneral type is such as will not look out of place on an oldfarm some way back from the pleasant shores of Long Is-land. Fakm Buildings at Oyster Bay, L. I.—Fig. 46 The plan of t
. Modern farm buildings : being suggestions for the most approved ways of designing the cow barn, dairy, horse barn, hay barn, sheepcote, piggery, manure pit, chicken house, root cellar, ice house, and other buildings of the farm group, on practical, sanitary and artistic lines . ornment. The buildingshave been carried out in the simplest possible manner, withwide clapboards and shingle roofs and in the hope that theirgeneral type is such as will not look out of place on an oldfarm some way back from the pleasant shores of Long Is-land. Fakm Buildings at Oyster Bay, L. I.—Fig. 46 The plan of the buildings here shown calls for an averageproblem, so far as actual requirements go. The original build-ing, consisting of the hay barn, horse barn, cow barn and dairy,was built some five years ago. The owner subsequently be-came interested in thoroughbred cattle and wanted to enlargehis farm buildings—a not infrequent occurrence. For thisreason, in choosing the site for the farm barn, the architect 152 MODERN FARM BUILDINGS should see to it that there is sufficient space around his orig-inal group to allow for possible extension in the future. Intwo instances that have come within the authors experience,the farm has been put to real inconvenience because the build-. Alfred Hopkins, Architect FIG. 46—PLAN OP FARM BUILDINGS AT OYSTER BAY, L. I., FOR MORTIMER L SCHIFF, ESQ. ings were originally located in a place so cramped that it wasimpossible ever to add to them. Not so long ago, the problem came up of adding, to theabove plan, space for young stock and dry stock, and it was
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