AMERICAN AGRICULTURIST. 
[March, 
Fig. 1— FRONT ELEVATION— SEEN FROM THE NORTH-WEST. 
Plan No. 28— A $2,000 to $3,000 House. 
As stated a year ago, Mr. Judd has from time to time 
erected one or more dwelling-houses, with the purpose 
of practically testing various plans and designs which 
seem to promise useful hints to the million readers of 
the American Agriculturist. The elevations given here- 
with are engraved from photographs of his twenty-eighth 
house, just completed. It is believed that this house will 
give more convenient rooms for the cost than any of the 
previous plans Fig. 1 gives a Front View, or 
Northwest corner, and Fig*2,a Rear View, or South- 
cast corner. The basement story or cellar, TJ4 feet high 
in the clear, is set fully two-thirds above the surface, as 
should usually be the case. It is always more healthful 
to live and sleep well up from the ground. The high, 
well lighted basement can then at any time he fitted up, as 
Fig. 2.— REAR ELEVATION, AS SEEN FROM THE SOUTH-EAST. 
a laundry or wash-room, or kitchen and dining-room. 
The brick walls, being hollow, arc security against frost, 
except in very cold localities The "Novelty" 1 sid- 
ing is of inch-thick boards, 10 inches wide, with a center 
groove in each, which gives the appearance of narrow 
boards. (See fig. G, on page S9, of our March No., 1S70.) 
Such siding secures greater warmth, and makes a strong, 
substantial structure, even with very light timber. The 
roof projects over the sides 22 inches, somewhat in the 
Italian villa style A cheap and effective wall lining, 
devised by the owner, is introduced into these latest con- 
structed houses. In the middle of the 4-inch space, be- 
tween the siding and lath, strong roofing-felt is introduced, 
so as to leave an air-chamber of 2 inches on each side 
of it. As confined air 
is one of the best non- 
conductors of heat, this 
plan is superior in some 
respects to the ordinary 
brick filling-in, while 
costing hardly an eighth 
as much as brick. The 
felt is shown in fig. S* 
The studs, 3x4, are set 
14 inches apart in the 
clear. A piece of felt, 
10 inches wide, and 2 
inches longer than the 
length of the studs, is 
turned over one inch on 
each side, and placed 
half-way back on the 
studs, and lath, clasping 
the turned edges, are 
nailed against the stud- 
ding, so as to stretch 
the felt between the 
studs. This felt, thus 
firmly held, is impervi- 
ous to wind or moisture. 
When brick are laid 
in, the mortar usually 
cracks more or less, 
admitting air-currents. 
The roofing-felt comes 
in rolls of any desired 
width. Mr. J. buys it 32 
inches wide, and saws 
through the roll, which 
gives strips 1G inches 
wide. The strips should 
be bent and fastened 
with pieces of lath at 
the top and bottom also, so as to be nearly air-tight, or 
at least wind-proof. Very good felt can be purchased in 
quantity for 3Jtf to 4 cents a pound — G or 7 square feet to 
the pound. Two men, working together, will apply it to 
a house of the size here given, in 1 to l'i days. Mice 
do not like it; we doubt if they would ever gnaw through 
it, not even to save themselves from actual starvation. 
Fig. 3— First Story— Hight in clear, 9y 2 feet. 
Ground size, 22x29 ft., besides the rear addition, 12^x5 
ft., and piazza, 21x7 ft. A single chimney furnishes flues 
for the three rooms in this story, and two rooms above. 
It is carried up through the basement, with fireplace 
below for either stove or range. The marble mantle in 
the parlor, P, is placed in the middle of that side of the 
room, and one flue of the chimney stands nearly against 
its center. The right-hand flue also extends far enough 
into the "Living" or "Dining" -Room, L P, for the 
reception of a stove-pipe. At r a 
tin warm-air pipe, surrounded with 
iron lath, and plaster, is carried up 
from the basement to the second 
story, with registers in Panel L P, 
and in E and P(fig. 4). A small 
portable or brick furnace can there- 
fore be readily placed in the base- 
ment, and thus be made to heat 
nearly all the house. These pipes 
and registers arc thus put in while 
building to save any after-cutting 
of walls or disfiguring of rooms, 
and the house is thus ready for heat- 
ing either with stoves or fui'nacc, as 
may be desired by any occupant. 
The bay-window, &, adds materially 
to the roominess and apparent size 
of the family-room, L, P, and also 
gives a good architectural effect to 
the outside. It also enables one 
to look out upon the street and 
upon the rear garden without open- 
ing a window A peculiarity of 
this house is the arrangement of 
the rear entrance, and closets or 
pantries. Passing out of the kitchen, 
A', to the hall e, and then to (/, six 
steps takes one down to the ground level, whence he may 
pass out through the rear door, tf (see also fig. 2), or turn to 
the right, where four steps takes him to the cellar, or base- 
ment. The closet, c, from L P, is placed high enough, 
with a slope at the back under the first shelf, to admit of 
easy passage to the cellar At p is a kitchen pantry, 
and atsa sink, with pump from cistern. The engraving 
hardly exhibits clearly the economy of space, halls, 
doors, covered cellar-entrance, etc., that are really se- 
cured in the arrangement of the "Addition," containing 
p, e, and d, carried up from the ground in the rear uf the 
main building. From L P a door opens into a closet, c, 
under the stairs into the main hall,// From the par- 
lor, P, a double or "twin" window, W. extends down 
to the floor, and opens on to the front piazea, pp. It will 
be noted that room is economized in the Second Story 
by giving a half turn to the head of the main stairs. This 
Fig. 3.— FIRST STORY. 
turn projects with a curve in the upper corner of P, P, 
without lessening the size or convenience of that room. 
The turning of this curve, in L, P, gives opportunity to 
the carpenter and mason to display their ingenuity and- 
taste, or lack of it. 
Fig. 4. — SECOND STORY. 
Fig. 4., Second Floor.— Hight in clears^ feet. 
It will be seen that the division here secures four good. 
