Popular Science Monthly 



959 



ceiling-beams but only with a ten-inch 

 high base and a chair rail. 



The kitchen and pantry are done in 

 natural-finished yellow pine and the pan- 

 try is equipped with cupboards on two 

 sides and a counter across the end. These 

 cupboards are provided with sash doors, 

 drawers, tilting flour-bin, cutting-boards, 

 tin closets, etc., which are very essential 

 to the workings of the culinary depart- 

 ment. The only connection between the 

 kitchen and the dining-room is through 

 the pantry, so that there is a double door 

 between the kitchen odors and the dining 

 table. The rear stairs go up to the 

 landing between the first and second 

 floors, where they join the main stairs to 

 the second floor. 



All floors throughout the first floor 

 with the exception of the vestibule, 

 kitchen and pantry and rear entrance 

 hall, are of ^^-in. "select" oak. The 

 kitchen and pantry floors are of 3^-in. 

 yelloAV pine and the vestibule floor is 

 of tile. All the wood floors are stained a 

 medium dark oak and then shellaced 

 and varnished. 



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On the second floor we find a hall, 

 four bedrooms, bathroom and a rear 

 veranda. The bathroom is finished in 

 white enamel with a tile floor and hard 

 plaster wainscot marked off to imitate 

 tile. This wainscot is also white 

 enameled. There is a small linen closet 

 opening off the bathroom and a medicine 

 case built in the partition over the 

 lavatory. The balance of the wood- 

 work on the second floor is white 

 enameled on white wood with the 

 exception of the doors which are of 

 unselected birch, stained mahogany. 

 All the upstairs floors are of "select" 

 oak ^-in. thick and finished with a 

 light stain, shellac and varnish. All 

 closets are provided with shelves and 

 hook strips and the mantel is provided 

 with a built-up pine shelf as is the one 

 in the living room. The attic stairs 

 lead up over the rear stairs and are off 

 the main hall. The rear porch is 

 covered with canvas and is accessible 

 from either of the rear bedrooms. 



As will be noted from the picture, 

 the exterior of the house is sided half 

 way up and shingled the upper half. 



The siding is painted a light lead color 

 while the shingles are a deep brown, the 

 trim being white. The ceiling of the 

 veranda as well as the plancier of the 

 main and dormer cornices is plastered 

 with stucco on wood lath and makes a 

 very pleasing effect. The appearance 

 of the house is also greatly improved by 

 the small lights in the upper sash of the 



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Arrangement of rooms on the first floor. 

 Note the large Hving room 



windows and the dormer windows, 

 which are broken out of the roof on the 

 front and two sides. The chimney 

 extends up the outside of the house all 

 the way and, while it adds to the cost of 

 the building to run up an exposed 

 chimney of this size, it also adds greatly 

 to the looks. The shingles on the upper 

 part of the building are laid in alternate 

 courses of six inches and two inches, 

 while the siding is laid three inches to 

 the weather. 



This makes up a house that is fit for 

 anyone to live in and at a price within 

 the reach of almost anyone in this day 



