DESIGN FOB AN ITALIAN VILL.V. 



too inalutinal a visitation. 

 The (.liiiiii<f-rooin (11) is a 

 large and Jianclsoine room 

 on the opposite side of the 

 entrance hall, having con- 

 nected whh it a spacious 

 and well lighted butler's 

 pantry, complete with every 

 convenience (12), and also 

 an inner hall (13) leading 

 to the kitchens, and con- 

 taining various closets, and 

 the back and cellar stair- 

 cases. 



The kitchen and domestic 

 arrangements are as follows : 

 No. 14 is a large and well 

 lighted kitchen, well sup- 

 plied with closets, and hav- 

 ing a separated lobby that 

 permits access to the hall 

 and main body of the house, 

 and yet entirely shuts off 

 the domestic office from ex- 

 posure. This lobby termi- 

 nates in a covered way near 

 the conservator}-, which gives access to the usual adjuncts of the building, which 

 space would not permit to be shown upon the plan. No. 15 is a laundry, or 

 back kitchen, containing a large larder and store closet. Beneath the whole house is 

 ample cellarage, seven feet high in the clear, and well lighted and ventilated, and in 

 the very center of the building is a sub-cellar, some six or seven feet deeper, containing 

 the beating apparatus — one of Ciiilson's largest sized furnaces — a position which 

 prevents the loss of heat by pi-essure upon a long length of horizontal pipe, and 

 secures the easy ascent of the warmed air into the rooms, and its ready and natural 

 distribution by proper ducts throughout the house. 



The chamber floor is thus apportioned : No. 1 is a large, well lighted corridor, 

 leading from the principal stairway, and conducting by an open lobby (2) to a chamber 

 (3) over the library. No. 4 is a chamber of the same size as the parlor beneath, and 

 5 a smaller single room, or it may be a dressing-room. No. 6 is a large room, 

 the same size as dining-room. Y, the back staircase. 8 is a dressing-room, or 

 smgle chamber. 9, a large sleeping-room, amply supplied with closets, and reached 

 from the landing, 7. 12 is a hall leading to water-closet (11) and bathing-room 

 (10) ; the tub in which occupies very little room, placed as the plan represents 



PRIXCIPAL FLOOR. 



