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siding. This may seem a good deal of material to put 

 into the walls, but it will pay. Still, one or two 

 layers may be omitted "at the owner's risk." 



This house will cost from $800 to $1,200, depend- 

 ing on who builds it, and where. 



Details of construction, such as ventilation, forma- 

 tion of the walls, etc. , may be varied to suit the needs 

 and notions of the builder. 



XIX. SPECIAL DESIGN FOR ARTHUR H. HILL 



Mr. Arthur H. Hill, of Isle I<a Motte, Vt., projects 

 an apple storage house of a somewhat novel type, to 

 suit rather unusual conditions. He has an old stone 

 quarry just on the bank of I^ake Champlain. The 

 stone has been taken out in such a manner as to leave 

 a perpendicular wall a little over twenty feet in hight 

 facing the lake. He proposes to build the storage 

 house against the face of this rock wall, thus saving 

 the construction of the west wall of his storage house. 

 The other three walls will be built of stone taken 

 from the quarry on the spot. 



The site has two other natural and unusual advan- 

 tages. The position on the very shore of the lake 

 makes it easy to secure a supply of ice, and the 

 plan is to use ice in cooling the fruit rooms. In the 

 second place, the apples are often shipped by boat, 

 and a dock can easily be provided within a few feet of 

 the building, so that barrels can be loaded directly 

 out of the house and into the boat. Canal boats run 

 directly from this point to New York and Buffalo, 

 so that marketing is attended with the utmost con- 

 venience. 



