ELEVATION Fig. 1. 



is surrounded with a veranda, under which lathing and 

 plastering may take the place of clapboards, and thus 

 save expense. The whole building may be considered as 

 composed of two parts or wings, extending from front to 

 back ; the ridge of their roofs also in the same direction, 

 connected by a centre building with the roof, at right 

 angles to the two former. The two wings are chiefly 

 occupied as parlor and family room in front, and kitchen 

 and nursery back ; and the centre part as a library, (for 

 books, minerals, maps, astronomical diagrams, etc.) lighted 

 by a skylight in the roof, through a circular opening 

 surrounded by a railing, in the second floor. This open- 

 ing will admit of thorough ventilation of the adjacent 

 rooms below, if desired, or it may be closed by a sash of 

 glass, the light softened by a translucent varnish. The 

 kitchen is lighted with one very broad window. A, A, 

 are chimneys, and admit of open fire-places for the par- 

 lor, nursery, kitchen and family room. If a hot air fur- 

 nace is used, by placing it under the centre of the library, 

 the heated air may be easily conducted to all the rooms 



