CHAPTER XV. 



PLANS OF RESIDENCES AND GROUNDS. 



BEFORE proceeding to examine the plans, the reader is 

 requested to observe the symbols used, as shown on the 

 preceding page. 



We desire also to offer a few preliminary explana- 

 tions. First, every intelligent reader knows that no two building 

 lots are often exactly alike in any respect. Not only in size and 

 form, but in elevation, in shape of surface, in the exposure of the 

 front to the north, east, south, or west, or intermediate points ; in 

 the presence and location of growing trees, large or small ; in the 

 nature of the improvements to the right or left, in front or rear ; 

 in the aspect of the surrounding country or city; in the connec- 

 tions with adjacent streets or roads ; in the prospective changes 

 that time is likely to bring which will affect their improvement for 

 good or ill ; — all these things are external conditions as similar in 

 the main as the colors of the kaleidoscope, and as invariably differ- 

 ent from each other in their combinations. Not only these external 

 conditions, but an equally numerous throng of circumstantial con- 

 ditions connected with the tastes, the means, the number, and the 

 business of the occupants, tend to render the diversities of our 



