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PLATE XXVII, A AND B. 



Two Plans for Residences and Grounds on Lots having acute Angles 

 formed by equally important Streets. 



These are common forms of town and suburban lots, which 

 puzzle improvers as to how to front the house, to plan it, and 

 to place the outbuildings, and lay out the ground so that the im- 

 provements shall look well, and the connections be the most con- 

 venient from both streets. 



The two ground-plans here given show different modes of front- 

 ing a house that is nearly the same in plan on both, on the same 

 lot; the different frontages involving a totally different style of 

 laying out in each case, and some variations in the kitchen part 

 of the house-plans. 



The lots are one hundred and fifty feet on each of the shorter 

 sides, and would be three hundred feet in length on the longest 

 side if extended to a sharp point ; this makes them equal in area 

 to a parallelogram 150 x 225 feet; a trifle more than three-quarters 

 of an acre. 



The carriage-house and road are of similar character in both 

 plans, and enter from the same street. In other respects the ground- 

 plans differ widely, and yet have some points of resemblance which 

 the form of the boundaries renders essential. Both have been de- 

 signed with care to make them valuable studies for those who have 

 similar lots to improve. Design B has a considerable length of 

 pleasure-walks which may be dispensed with, without marring the 

 design for planting ; and design A shows no walks on the pleasure- 

 ground proper, though a walk could be laid out around the lawn 

 above the house, if thought desirable, without changing the plan of 

 its planting. The dotted lines on design B represent some of the 

 open lines of view to and from the principal windows of the house, 

 from the streets, and from one part to another of the grounds. 



The extremely small scale of the drawings make it impractica- 

 ble to give details for planting. 



