36 MAINE STATE SOCIETY. 



VIEW A^'D PLAN OF BUILDINGS FOR A MAINE FARMER. 



[For View, see Frontispiece.] 



BY MRS. ISAAC VT. CASE, KENDUSKEAG. 



This plan is designed to meet the wants of farmers in Maine, who 

 have moderate sized farms devoted to the usual "mixed husbandry." 



The exterior of the buildings is in a plain Gothic style, as seen 

 in the front elevation; the situation is fronting the west, thus giving 

 a sunny side to the greatest number of apartments. The frame 

 ma]/ be of light timber, covered with jointed boards and battening 

 strips, planed or unplaned, or finished in the usual manner, with 

 clapboards, with trimmings of a plain kind ; the roofs are projecting, 

 with a pitch of a little more than forty-five degrees; the chimneys 

 and supporting columns of the piazza and wood-shed, are slender, 

 corresponding with the style. 



The interior is arranged for the comfort and convenience of the 

 farmer's family, where the house and dairy work is usually done by 

 the wife and daughters. The well, cistern, wood-house, ice room 

 and cellar, or any out building, may be reached with the fewest steps 

 and least possible exposure. 



The main house is in cottage form, Or story and a half high, with 

 piazzas, one in front and another at the side ; the roof has side 

 gables, which light the chambers and give a finish to its appearance. 

 The ground plan needs but little description ; it has all the needed 

 rooms, with closets, passages, &c., as may be seen. A few words 

 about the kitchen and dairy rooms may be well, as they are gener- 

 ally considered the most important part of the farm house. The 

 first opens from the rear of the dining-room ; it is liglited by two 

 windows on the south side. The chimney is between this room and 

 the dairy in the rear, giving place for a large brick oven and a 

 stove or range ; a large store room, with sink and pumps of hard 

 and soft water, and a pantry, each lighted by a large window, open 



