The Plough, the loom and the anvil . The Principal Floor is thus arranged. No. 1 is the principal entrance, beingan open porch. Xo. 2 is the entry. No. 3 is the inner hall, separated fromNo. 2 by glass and double doors ; this hall is nine feet wide. No. 4 is the largedrawing-room, 30 feot by 16, with projecting bay windows in the front and cJ Small Country Villa. 95 upon one side. No. 5 is the dining-room. No. 6, family parlor or library, witha deeply embayed window or wing, No. 7, forming a pleasant retreat for read-in, &c. One of its windows opens upon a covered terrace, No. 8, the otherend
The Plough, the loom and the anvil . The Principal Floor is thus arranged. No. 1 is the principal entrance, beingan open porch. Xo. 2 is the entry. No. 3 is the inner hall, separated fromNo. 2 by glass and double doors ; this hall is nine feet wide. No. 4 is the largedrawing-room, 30 feot by 16, with projecting bay windows in the front and cJ Small Country Villa. 95 upon one side. No. 5 is the dining-room. No. 6, family parlor or library, witha deeply embayed window or wing, No. 7, forming a pleasant retreat for read-in, &c. One of its windows opens upon a covered terrace, No. 8, the otherend of which terminates with the conservatory, No. 9, a view into which maybe obtained from No. 7. No. 10 is an entry. No. 11, a passage way into thekitchen, No. 14, and is provided with shelves, &c. No. 12 is a store or chinacloset, and No. 13 the same. The kitchen is 16 by 14 feet. A stairway leads tothe second story, underneath which another leads to the cellar. No. 15 is thelaundry and scullery, with store closets, & The cellar should be seven feet high, under the whole house, and containrooms for vegetables, milk, stores, &c. The Chamber Floor is arranged as follows: No. 1 is the upper hall, lightedby a dome overhead, inserted in the attic floor and illuminated by glass on alevel with the roof, not observable from outside the building. Nos. 2 and 3 arelarge chambers, the former having a very large closet. No. 4 is over the en-trance porch. No. 5 is over the family sitting-room, and No. 6 is over thedining-room. A stairway, No. 7, leads to the attic, projecting into No. 6, andcorresponding to which on the other side is a closet of similar size. No. 8 is achamber. No. 9 a corridor leading to a bath-room, No. 10, and to the servantssleeping-room. No. 11. The walls arc eight feet high to the top of the plate, the ceilings following upthe rake of the rafters, so as to permit a straight ceiling of ten feet or more inthe highest part of the room. The rooms in the main part of the
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