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NEW ENGLAND FARMER. 



July 



kukaij architecture. 



DESIGN FOR A COUNTRY OR VILLAGE HOUSE, BY GEO. E. rL\RNEY, LYNN, MASS. 



DESIGNED AND ENGRAVED EXPRESSLY FOR THE NEW ENGLAND FARMER. 



In this design we have endeavored to provide 

 accommodation for a small family of cultivated 

 taste, either in the country or village. The pro- 

 vision of a dairy would indicate that it was de- 

 signed for a Farm House, while it possesses some 

 other features which, though not out of keeping 

 with the uses of such a house, seem to adapt it to 

 some prominent situation and make it something 

 of a show house ; hence we think it would be es- 

 pecially suitable for a small milk farm, located in 

 the vicinity of some city or large town, to which 

 the owner might carry his milk every morning for 

 a market — a business from which, we are inclined 

 to think, one might reap quite a profit, besides 

 having the satisfaction of feeling oneself a bene- 

 factor — for rich, pure milk is a luxury that would 

 be highly appreciated by dwellers in the city, ac- 

 customed, as a great portion of them are, to using 

 a liquid that has been brought for miles in the cars, 

 and encountered several processes which do any- 

 thing but improve its quality. 



This plan we think would be well suited to such 

 a business as that, yet by converting the dairy into 

 a store-room we have a convenient jjlan for a com- 

 mon suburban or country residence. 



Accommodation. — From the drive-way in front 

 three easy stejis rise to the portico, A, and from 

 this portico we enter the hall, H. This hall meas- 

 ures seven feet by sixteen, and contains the front 

 stairs to the chambers. On the right is the par- 

 lor, B, a pleasant room fourteen by sixteen, and 

 opening out of this room on the south-eastern side 

 is a conservatory, G, for plants and flowers. It 

 measures fourteen by eighteen feet, and is fitted 

 up with wide shelves at the sides and a broad 

 stand in the centre for f;dl plants, with a passage 

 of three feet in width all around it. 



This conservatory is designed to be heated in a 

 manner described by Downing as the Polmaise 

 system, namely : by means of a furnace made of a 

 common air-tight stove placed in a brick air-cham- 

 ber underneath the floor, the heat passing up 

 through a single pipe running from the top of the 

 chamber to the floor — while from the floor at the 

 farther end of the conservatory, near the door, an- 

 other pipe extends doNvnwards, and terminates in 

 the bottom of the air-chamber, thus producing a 

 thorough circulation of air all the time, with a 

 regulated supply of fresh air from out of doors 

 conducted by means of a box like a common fur- 



