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THE GENESEE FAEMEK. 



GROUND PLAN. SUBURBAN COTTAGE. 



" A peculiarity in this design is in the projecting half-octagon porch or ombra, which, 

 fi-om its position, serves the double purpose of a delightful and cool retreat, and that of 



an entrance-hall — it is niark- 

 ed on the plan. No. 1. In 

 the winter, its sides might 

 be filled with windows, and 

 the opening in front with a 

 glass door, thus making an 

 enclosed vestibule or porch, 

 and rendering the dining- 

 room a very warm and com- 

 fortable apartment. From 

 this porch are doors into the 

 dining-room, No. 2 ; the par- 

 lor or hbrary, No. 3 ; and 

 the kitchen. No. 5 ; and ac- 

 coi'ding as a visitor's business 

 in calling w'as to such and 

 such a jiortion of the house, 

 a door might be opened, thus 

 saving the internal room necessary for a hall, and yet gaining all the advantages of such 

 a portion of the building. The dining-room is a good-sized pleasant room, fifteen feet 

 by seventeen, with French windows opening upon the ombra or porch at one end, and 

 a recess for sideboard underneath the stairs at the other. Attached to this room are the 

 necessary adjuncts of china, glass, and store closets, one by the sideboard, and the other 

 in the side of the room opposite to the stove or fireplace. Back of the dining-room is a 

 small vestibule, five feet square, enclosed so as to shut off" the staircase, and being the 

 passage way from the pantry, scullery, and kitchen, to the dining-room. This entry is 

 marked in the plan. No. 4, and is provided with an outer door. The economy in space 

 attained by the arrangement of this portion of the plan must be evident at a glance, and 

 the domestic comfort and convenience ensured, seem to me to render it very desirable. 

 No. 3 is a large, well-proportioned apartment, twenty-five by fifteen, exclusive of a large 

 prijecting window in the side of the room. This Avould serve as a parlor, drawing-room, 

 or country library, as the taste of the occupants lead them to determine. The projecting 

 window opens upon a large veranda extending along the side of the room, and from one 

 side of this bay-window a portion of the veranda might, if thought pleasant, be enclosed, 

 forming either a conservatory or a small summer study, attainable at very little addi- 

 tional cost. As this house might in many places be thought adapted for the dwelling 

 of the clergyman of some small society, I would suggest that the room I have just 

 described would very agreeably aff'ord ample space for purposes of clerical use, and tlie 

 small study thus attached (entered by a door from the side of the bay-window) migLt 

 be provided with a flue in one of its sides, so as to be warmed by a stove in winter. 

 Few houses of far greater pretension and expense have rooms so spacious and well-pro- 

 portioned as those in this little cottage, and hence its desirableness for erection. No. 5 

 is a kitchen, back of which is a large scullery and Avash-room, No. 6. Underneath the 

 building, a dry and well lighted cellar (lighted from the one end and the rear side) 

 might contain a store and flour-room, a larder, etc., with a flight of stairs leading thereto. 

 Back of this building, I would projwse an enclosed yard, containing wood-shed, and sut h 

 offices as are better out of doors, and as the pleasant, occupied rooms are all on the 

 oUicr side of the house, the yard so enclosed might extend along its entire rear length, 

 and being conveniently opened into by means of the enclosod vestibule at the foot of the 

 stairs, would be easy of access from the living rooms. This enclosed yard would keej 



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