MY FARM OF EDGEWOOD 



complished within the limits of cost which the 

 most economic would have reckoned essential 

 to a building of equal capacity. 



It is further to be considered that while I 

 paid skilful masons for this rough work the 

 same price which they exacted for the nice 

 work of cities, it would have been quite possi- 

 ble for an intelligent proprietor to commit 

 very much of it to an ordinary farm laborer, 

 and so reduce the cost by at least one third. 



I have dwelt at length upon this little archi- 

 tectural experience, because I believe that such 

 meagre details of construction as I have given 

 may be of service to those having occasion to 

 erect similar tenant houses ; and again, because 

 in view of the fact that we must in time have 

 a race of farm laborers among us, who shall 

 also be householders, I count it a duty to make 

 such use of the homely materials at hand, as 

 shall insure durability and comfort, while the 

 simplicity of detail will allow the owner to 

 avail himself of his own labor and ingenuity 

 in the construction. 



A SUNNY FRONTAGE 



Such a farmhouse as I have described, should 

 have, in all northern latitudes, a sheltered posi- 



loo 



