1856. 



NEW EXGLAND FARMEE. 



457 



A SaUARE COTTAGE. 



Below, we give another plan of a house from 

 Wheeler's "Homes for the People." Houses upon 

 this plan have been erected in the vicinity of Hud- 

 son, N. Y., at a cost of $2,300. We cannot find 

 room for the whole description, so that if any one 

 decides to adopt any of the plans we give, they 

 will find it profitable to purchase the work. 



The plan exhibits a building, thirty-eight feet 

 front, and thirty-two in depth, with a wing of one 

 or two stories, as the amount of accommodation 

 needed may require — twenty feet by thirteen. 



A wide veranda stretches across the front, and 

 in the centre is the entrance hall, No. 1, with stair 



PLAN OF THE FIRST FLOOR. 



case. Upon one side is a sitting-room, No. 2, which 

 is fifteen feet square, and in its rear a dining-room. 

 No. 3, fifteen feet by nineteen, provided with a 

 china closet at one end, and corresponding with it 

 an entry with drawers and wardrobe, leading to a 

 bed-room. No. 4, the dimensions of which are fif- 

 teen feet by ten. 



No. 5 is a parlor, with veranda, and with one of 

 smaller size at the side. This room is fifteen by 

 twenty feet six inches. All these rooms are ten 

 feet high in the clear. The wing contains a back 

 entry, No. 6, with outer door and store closet, lit 

 by a small window, and next to this a kitchen. No. 

 7, with a back staircase to the rooms over (if the 

 wing be made two stories in height) and under thi^, 

 one to the cellar, which should be under the whole 

 house, or only this portion, as the nature of the 

 soil might permit. 



The kitchen contains a sink and cook's closet, 

 and is eight feet high in the clear. 



The wood-house, necessaries, and other outbuild- 

 ing*!, are intended to be in a distinct erection, con- 

 nected with the rear of the house by a covered 

 way, or disposed in such a manner as the nature of 

 the situation rendered desirable. 



The arrangement of the chamber floor affords 

 four large sleeping-rooms above the apartments 

 below, and two small ones; the latter contrived 

 in front, at the end of the hall, and the other, by a 

 continuation of the same partition across the end 

 of the room, over the dining-room. 



The sleeping-room for servants would be in the 

 wmg. 



The height of the chambers in the main body of 

 the building is eight feet in the clear, with a space 

 in the roof for storage. 



The view of the exterior shows that by simple 

 grouping of the necessary details of the building, 

 a liveliness of efiect can be obtained which the 

 square form of the place seldom permits. The 

 common defect is in the persisting of country- 

 builders in filling their houses with windows — to 

 the destruction of all of what the painters call 

 breadth, and to the actual discomfort of the in- 

 dwellers, who show their sense of the existence of 



