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PtTBT.ISHED BY THE COLLEGE OP AGRICULTURE OF CORNELL UNIVERSITY, 



FROM November to March, and Entered at Ithaca as Second-class 

 Matter under Act of Congress of July 16, 1894. L. H. Bailey, Director, 



SERIES VI. 

 BUILDINGS AND YARDS. 



ITHACA, N. Y., 

 JANUARY, 1906. 



No. 28. 

 PLAN OF HOUSE. 



THE PLAN OF THE FARMHOUSE 



By Professor Clarence A. Martin 

 In charge of College of Architecture, Cornell University 



Unfortunately very little thought has yet heen given to the problem of 

 the farm house. It is all very well for architects to plan *' farm houses " 



Fig. 303. — A couifact house. Tin's type of house makes a compact and convenient 

 floor-plan possible. The floor-plan and the general form of the house must corre- 

 late or correspond. 



for the wealthy " gentlemen farmers " and to make them ideally beautiful 

 and convenient ; but such houses are not real farm houses for real farmers. 

 They are only elaborate country houses built more or less regardless of a 

 cost limit, and have little more to do with the real problem of the farm 

 house than does the Fifth Avenue residence of the same " farmer." The 

 problem of the real farm house, — the dwelling place of the man struggling 

 to wrest a livelihood from the soil and to make a home for his old age 



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