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gether preferable to having the dairy rooms above ground, being 

 cooler and less liable to sudden changes in temperature. For this I 

 have the judgment of some of our best Orange county butter ma- 

 kers. A small private cellar under the library, and another under 

 the vestibule is intended. The root cellar I would construct under 

 the wing. The passage way in the wing may be used as an eating 

 hall, except in very cold weather. The door A. (fig. 2,) opens upon 

 the stair which descends into the dairy rooms and cellars adjoining. 

 Door B. opens upon the landing-, from which four or five steps con- 

 duct to the main floor. Door C. opens upon stairs leading to sleep- 

 ing apartments of the farm servants, and door D. to stairs descend- 

 to vegetable cellar. A door on the landing of principal stairs will 

 connect with attic of wing. If the small room marked office^ is used 

 for that purpose, it would be proper to have a door opening from it 

 into passage way in wing. .- 



The roof of the main 

 building, I would recom- 

 mend to be of tin or zinc, 

 for many reasons ; shin- 

 gles however maybe used, 

 (except in the gutter at 

 the eave,) where they are 

 much cheaper or more 

 abundant. The roof of this building it will be seen, projects pretty 

 boldly about 2 feet over the line of the exterior wall. This not only 

 secures a good, dry, and well sheltered house, but it gives the dwelling 



at once something of a superior air. 

 This construction of the roof will be 

 easily understood by mechanics, as it is 

 formed by employing rafters of suffi- 

 cient length to project 20 or 22 inches 

 over the face of the wall B. These 

 may be ceiled on the under side, so as 

 to show the slope of the rafter, (fig. 

 4.) or the finish may be made to show 

 a flat ceiling under the projection, as 

 in fig. 5. In either case the appear- 

 ance of support is increased by adding plain brackets (C.) about 4 

 by 5 inches and nearly as deep as the projection of the roof. 



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