1851. 



THE GENESEE FARMER. 



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end will face a street to the north, and the side a 

 street on the east. The main part will be 24 by 32 

 feet, and two stories high ; the wings only one story. 

 The pantry is as convenient to the dining room as 

 the kitchen. The outside cellar door will be under 

 the meal room, in front of the piazza. Folding-doors 

 between the sitting room and parlor. J. H. An- 

 drews. — Almont, Mich., 1851. 



OTJR LITTLE COTTAGE. 



Messrs. Editors: — I have been particularly de- 

 lighted from time to time, with the plans of building 

 farm-houses and cottages, given in the Farmer, and 

 as you say you shall continue to give plans through 

 the year, I will venture to send you the plan of our 

 little cottage built the past year, if you think it worth 

 a place in your paper. 



What is more beautiful than a neatly finished cot- 

 tage, surrounded by trees and shrubbery both useful 

 and ornamental, the well-trained honeysuckle and 

 jasmine, the roses of diirerent varieties, anl flowers 

 of various liues, that perfume the atmosphere with 

 their sweet fragrance, tastrfully arranged around it ; 

 this will make home pheasant, and surely it may be 

 called one of the bright spots of earth. When we 

 rise in the morning and look out upon the flower- 

 yard, and see tlie crystal dew-drop hanging upon the 

 newly blown rose or the more modest lilly, and the 

 meek violet peeping out from its fellows, we say 

 truly this is rural beauty — a luxury that every one 

 might wish for ; a-nd those vvho desire the beautiful, 

 can with a little labor enjoy it. 



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Descriptfon of Ground Plan. — 1, sitting room, 

 13 by 15. 2, parlor, 12 by 15. 3, dining room or 

 kitchen, 11 by 15. 4, wood-house or back kitchen, 

 9 by 15 J, with pump from well and cistern in the 

 end, f, p. G, pantry, 7| by 8. /, clo&et in pantry, 

 ■with lattice and screen bottom to let in air from cellar. 

 a, vestibule, 7 by 7|. B, bed room, 9 by 13 ; clothes 

 pi-ess, 3 by 9. b, b, bed rooms, 7 J by 9. c, c, c, clos- 

 ets. D, b ?d room, 7 by 9. E, scullery, /i, stairway. 



The upright part of the roof is 15 by 28, 14 feet 



high. The two wings are each 9 by 16, 9 feet high 

 The other two rooms, with pantry, Jk,c , is 20 by 22J, 

 9 feet high, with stove chimney from upper floor in 

 the middle of this and the upright, to accommodate 

 any room desired. 



This is a plank house, finished in modern style, 

 with pilastre corners, and costs about $500, not in^ 

 eluding the hauling of materials or boards. 



I think a house after this plan, finished in the gothic 

 style, would look well ; but probably it would be 

 more expensive. A Farmer's Wife. — Clarence^ 

 JV. Y., 1851. 



FARM COTTAGE. 



Thr following design for a Farm Cottage, with de- 

 scription, Sec, we take from the New York Agricul- 

 turist : 



"In the construction of a farm cottage the chief 

 objects to be considered, are, 1st, the number and 

 character of the people it is intended to accommo- 

 date ; 2d, the expense, or present means and pros- 

 pective ability of the proprietor ; 3d, the position in 

 regard to exposure to the sun, and in affording con- 

 venience to the out buildings, or other parts of the 

 farm ; 4th, consistency, or congruity, so far as it is 

 considered as an object in landscape scenery, or re- 

 lates to the nature of the materials of which it is 

 constructed, the color and finish of the exterior, and 

 its fitness or adaptation in promoting health, com- 

 fort, and cheerfulness to the occupants within. 



'•' Those who possess but moderate means, aud are 

 unable to erect a more costly mansion, may build, in 

 many situations, a very comroitable and convenient 

 dwelling, for from $600 to $900, agreeably to the^ 

 plans and elevation denoted by the adjoining cuts. 



"Description. — The main body of the cottage, is 

 in the form of a paralleligram, 34 feet long, inclu- 

 ding the portico, and 32 feet wide, having 14 foot 

 posts, 2 feet of which extend above the attic floor, 

 sustaining a roof i if a 16 foot pitch, with the gablo 

 end facing the south or south-west. The back part 

 of the house, which extends to the kitchen, is 18 by 

 23 feet, including the vera ndah^^ with 10 foot posts, 

 supporting a roof of 11 J foot pitch, with the gable 

 towards the north en- north-oast. The kitchen is 12 

 by 23 feet, including the paijsage to the vault, with 

 G foot posts and a loan-to roof having a 4 foot pitch. 



"The whole building is designed to be elevated on 

 a terrace, or mason work, 3 feet above the common 

 level of the gr uinJ, to bo built of wood, with the 

 outer walls lined with bricks. The roofs, also, are 

 designed to be built of wood, covered either with 

 common shingles, or water-proof cement. 



'• On the centre of the main body of the house, a 

 fal.-e chimney top is shown, which maybe formed of 

 metal, bricks, or artificial stone, for receiving the 

 stove pipes from the rooms below. Those who pre- 

 fer fireplaces to furnaces, or stoves can erect a chim- 

 ney at each side of the cottage, extending their tops 

 about 16 feet above the eaves. Between the dining 

 roo'Ti and the kitchen, there is a chimney designed to 

 communicate with the cooking range and stove in 

 those parts of the house. 



"This cottage is des'gned to be entered from the 

 front gate thrciug'i a portico, 6 feet wide, extending 

 across the whole width of the house. The entry of 

 the kitchen and dining room is also designed to be 

 passed into on the easterly side of the back part of 

 the building, through a verandah 3 feet wide. 



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