1868. 



NEW ENGLAND FARMER. 



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A SIDE-HILL COTTAGE. 



•'Circumstances govern cases," is an old 

 adage that expresses a truth too often disre- 

 garded in some of our plans and operations. 

 One Tvho has been long accustomed to build- 

 ings which were appropriate to their location 

 and convenient for the pu poses for which they 

 were planned and constructed, is very liable 

 to adhere to the same style, whenever he 

 builds, though his circumstances and purposes 

 may be very different. 



We have in our mind a house in the open 

 country, some ten miles from Boston, built 

 and occupied by a city mechanic, which looks, 

 for all the world, as though it had been cut 

 from some crowded city block, and carefully 

 transplanted to its present location. It has 

 no veranda, balcony, or projection of any 

 kind. It stands stark and bald, as if perfectly 

 unconscious that the surrounding land is valued 

 by mills, instead of dollars per foot. 



We are reminded also of another small 

 dwelling house built upon level and rather 

 moist soil, with "a basement," which we once 

 examined with a view of hiring for a tenement, 

 but which our better-half, who did her own 

 work, at once decided would not at all suit 

 her, and of course that house was left for some 

 other customer. 



Still, as "circumstances alter cases," and 

 as there are side-hills as well as plains in New 

 England, a basement house may sometimes be 

 appropriate and desirable. 



The above plan, as will be seen, is meant 

 for a position below the road. Gentle swells 

 by some valley side, or on the outer margin 



Principal Floor-Plan. 



of a plain, often furnish sites well adapted to 

 this plan. The cut, and illustrations were 



