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NEW ENGLAND FARRIER. 



Aprii- 



[Entcred according to Act of Congress, in the year 1S70, by R. P. Eaton & Co., in the Oerk's Office of the District Cooit for the 



District of Massachusetts.] 



RURAL. ARCHITECTURE. 



BT GEO. E. HARNEY, Cold Spring, N. Y. 



DESIGNED AND ENGRAVED EXPRESSLY FOR THE NEW ENGLAND FARMER. 



No. l.~A FRENCH HOOP SUBURBAN HOUSE. 



In the year 1859, — eleven years ago, — we 

 commenced a series of papers in the pages of 

 the New England Framer upon Rural Archi- 

 tecture and the improvement of country places, 

 which papers were continued through three 

 or four years, during which time we presented 

 to the readers thereof some twenty or more 

 pictures and plans of rural cottages and farm 

 houses, and whatever else came within the 

 range of the subject. 



The acquaintance was so very pleasant to 

 us that, afcer seven years of intermission, — 

 vacation we will call it, if you please, — we 

 propose to renew it, and during this year shall 

 present some new designs, and give some fur- 

 ther hints about building suburban and village 

 bouses, and kindred matters. 



The design which we shall offer at this time 

 has very much of the modern French charac- 

 ter in its exterior, though in a modified form. 

 It is nearly square in plan, measuring 40 feet 

 in width and 38 in depth. A slight projec- 

 tion, surmounted by a pediment, gives strength 

 to the front of the design and allows of a re- 

 cess at the front entrance doors. An orna- 

 mental terrace, 10 feet wide, runs along the 

 entire front, and from it we enter the vesti- 

 bule, B. The house is placed so that the floor 

 is about five feet above the ground, and the 

 foundations are surrounded by a banking up 

 to the bottom of a split stone underpinning. 

 The building is of wood, boarded and clap- 

 boarded on the outside ; the roof is French, 

 the lower pitch very steep and the upper not 



