BESIDENCE OP SAMUEL B. PARSONS. 



Between the dining-room and kitchen is an entry and side door opening on the 

 porte-cochere. The kitchen is supplied with hot and cold water from a tank which 

 is kept filled from a spring a quarter of a mile distant by means of a ram, and 

 also a windmill. The whple house is lighted with gas, which is also used for 

 cooking in warm weather. The laundry, with permanent wash tubs, ironing 

 range, &c., is in the basement under the kitchen, where is also the dairy, drying- 

 room, &c. 



From the cellar is a passage communicating with a closet in the ice-house. 



