1862. 



NEW ENGLAND FARMER. 



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iBUKAL ARCHITECTURE. 



DESIGN FOR A COUNTRY RESIDENCE, BV GEO. E. HARNEY, LYNN, MASS. 



Designed axd kngraved kxi'Kessly for the new England farmer. 



In continuation of our series of hints for Rural 

 Improvements, v>e offer at tliis time a design and 

 plan for a suburban cottage of moderate size and 

 cost. It measures thirty-one by thirty-six feet on 

 the ground, and is one and a half stories high, with 

 square rooms below, and good airy chambers, well 

 ventilated, on the second floor. 



Flan. — The h-ont door — the upper half of which 

 is glazed — opens into a vestibule, A, six feet wide. 



and nine feet long. From the rear of this a pas- 

 sage extends to the staircase hall, F, which opens 



out to the yard, or into a wood-shed, if desired. 

 B, the parlor, is fifteen feet square, and is well 

 lighted by a muUioned window in front, and a sin- 

 gle window at the sides. It connects by means of 

 a small passage with the living-room, D, (this pas- 

 sage might be converted into a closet — thereby en- 

 tirely separating the parlor from the living-room.) 

 This living-room is twelve by seventeen, and opens 

 into the staircase haU at a point convenient to the 

 back entrance to the house. Across the hall, and 

 near the head of the cellar staii\s, is a good sized 

 closet or store-room, a, fitted up with shelves and 

 cupboards, and lighted by a single window. (Owing 

 to a mistake in di'awing, the perspective view shows 

 only one window on tliis side of the house, instead 

 of iico, as there should be — see plan.) 



The sitting-room, C, measures tliii'teen by fif- 

 teen, and has two doors, one opening into the ves- 

 tibule, and the other into the passage back of it. 



The second floor is divided mainly like the first, 

 and comprises three chambers, a bathing-room, 

 and five closets — besides the haU. The chamber 

 over the parlor is lighted by a dormer window at 

 the side, and a mullioned window in the front, with 

 swing sashes opening out upon a pleasant balcony 

 shown in the perspective. 



Interior Finish, <fcc. — The finish of the interior 



