PLANS OF BUILDINGS. 



DESIGN FOR A FARM HOUSE AND OUT-BUILDINGS. 



BY JOHN J. THOMAS, MACEDON, N. Y. 



Figures 1, 2, 3, represent the farm house — fig. 1, the elevation, 

 partaking of the Italian style — fig. 2, the ground plan, and fig. 3, 

 plan of the second floor. A form nearly square is given to the build- 

 ing, for the sake of economy, requiring far less external covering for 

 the space enclosed; at the same time the outline is somewhat broken, 

 to prevent heaviness and monotony of expression. About half is sur- 

 rounded with a veranda, under which lathing and plastering may 



Elevation — Fig. 1. 



take the place of clapboards, and thus save expense. The whole 

 building may be considered as composed of two parts or wings, ex- 

 tending from front to back, the ridge of their roofs also in the same 

 direction, connected by a center building with the roof at right an- 

 gles to the two former. The two wings are chiefly occupied as par- 

 lor and family room in front, and kitchen and nursery back; and the 

 center part as a library, (for books, minerals, maps, astronomical dia- 

 grams, &c.) lighted by a sky-light in the roof, through a circular 

 opening, surrounded by a railing, in the second floor. This opening 

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