Planning the House 



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Entrance side of Cohasset house 



of the lighting of the hall, and a box seat to hold footwear. It would be better 



if this seat were located under the inside window and a door cut through the 



south wall so as to give access to the screened piazza, thus avoiding the passage 



through the dining 



room for ordinary 



use. The closet off 



the vestibule offers 



hanging room for 



over -garments, as 



well as a passage 



from the living room 



to the hall. This 



isolates the reception 



room and makes it 



unnecessary to pass 



through it in going 



from one part of the 



house to another. 



The piazza area 

 is not extraordi- 

 narily large, because 

 in its consideration 



the garden is made to count as an open piazza, the roofed-in structure being con- 

 sidered more from the point of an open-air dining room. If more be desired, 

 however, it can readily be carried around the south side of the dining room. 

 Although we have considered screens in this connection, it is not really 

 necessary, as there are very few mosquitos in this locality. It is good planning, 

 however, to provide against them, for occasionally a damp, warm season will 

 liven up the pests considerably. 



The dining room has access to the piazza through a French window, making 

 it possible to set a table out of doors. Its connection with the kitchen is 

 through the china closet, which arrangement, giving two doors in the interval, 

 should in a measure keep the kitchen door from the rest of the house. The 

 buffet is built in between the dining room and the china closet, with a slide between. 



The pantry is placed on the southeast corner, and provided with two 

 windows so that it may get what air there is stirring. 



The kitchen is large and its outside walls are practically all glass. The sink 

 is set in the centre of a 13-foot shelf, giving ample room on either side. There is 

 also room for a table near the cellarway and a swinging shelf next the dining room. 

 The kitchen is also handy to the back door, the back and cellar stairs and the two 

 front doors, and has a clothes closet of its own in the back hall. On hot and close 

 days the opening of the china closet door and window, the north kitchen window and 

 the hall and back doors will give a relieving cross-current of air. The back stairs, hav- 

 ing a door at the foot, will prevent the kitchen odours from besieging the second story. 



The servants' hall, being across the hallway, is within reach of the kitchen 

 and has a good easterly outlook. 



