1870. 



NEW ENGLAND FAEJIER. 



285 



[Entered according to Act of Congress, in t]ie year 1870, by R. P. Eaton & Co., in the Clerk's Office of the District Court for the 



District ot Massacliusetts.] 



RURAL ARCHITECTURE. 



BT GEO. E. HABXEY, Cold Spring, y. T. 



DESIGNED AKD E:N"GRAVED EXPRESSLY FOR TKE NEW ENGLAND FARMER. 



No. 3.— AN BCONOMICAIi VILLAGE HOUSE. 



This design was prepared for execution near 

 Boston, and comprises an amount of accom- 

 modation very often required in New England 

 villages, besides being well adapted by its 

 shape for a narrow village or suburban lot. 

 We will suppose the lot to be sixty feet in 

 width, (which is an ordinary frontage,) by a 

 hundred or more in depth, and so located that 

 the front veranda and entrance door will face 

 towards the south. This will allow the house 

 to be placed quite near the north line, or 

 within, say, eight feet of it, and along the 

 south side will be a foot path and grass, or a 

 drive-way, as the owner may fancy, — there 

 being about twenty-four feet left between the 

 house and the south line of the lot. The 

 house is placed upon a banking, so that the 

 main floor is about five feet above the grade, 



and, approached by a number of steps, is the 

 veranda, which shields the front entrance. 

 The veranda is nine feet wide. 



The arrangement of the plan is as follows : 

 B is an entry, five by seven and a half feet, 

 and C a passage four and a half feet wide, 

 connecting it with the staircase, which, as 

 there is but one, is placed somewhat away 

 from the front door, both for greater privacy 

 and greater convenience. The stairs are three 

 feet wide and continue up to the attic. E, the 

 parlor, is a pleasant room, fifteen by seven- 

 teen feet, to which it is proposed at some 

 future time to add a bay window, projecting 

 it from the front, where the mullioned win- 

 dow now is. F is the library, nine by thirteen 

 feet. It has a bay window, opening from the 

 north side and is intended to be fitted up with 



