Beautifying the Farmstead. 



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orate and pretentious; whether the greatest possible economy of 

 funds and lands is essential or whether a liberal expenditure is per- 

 missible. Further, a general conception must be formed of the style 

 of place that is desired ; whether free and open or secluded, whether 

 austere and commanding or cosy and retiring a whether massive or 

 airy, palatial or simple, somber or gay, pretentious or modest, for- 

 bidding or hospitable, dignified or riotous. 



STYLE OF THE DESIGN. 



So far no distinctive type of American farm architecture has 'de- 

 veloped, although some localities have evolved typical styles. Ex- 

 amples of these are found in New England with the house and barn 



FIG. 10. Typical New England farm buildings. 



connected by a woodshed (fig. 10) ; in central New York with a 

 story and three-fourths house and a moderate-sized barn; in south- 

 eastern Pennsylvania with its bank barn of stone, stable high with 

 an "overshoot" on the south (fig. 11) and a moderate-sized dwell- 

 ing; and in the South with large houses (fig. 12) and the other farm 

 buildings subordinated. Because so much of our farming country 

 is flat it would seem that the ultimate prevailing style should be 

 low and spreading and that the prevailing lines should be horizon- 

 tal, to make them harmonize more nearly with the landscape. Small 

 communities with special conditions will be likely to develop their 

 own styles. 



An important thing is to have the buildings on any farm suffi- 

 ciently similar in appearance to seem to belong together (fig. 13). 

 The barns should all be of the same general style, and the houses 

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