RURAL ARCHITECTURE. 
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effect in all the richness and beauty with which they are in- 
vested in the countries where they originated ; and they may 
be regarded with a degree of classic interest by every culti- 
vated mind. The modern Italian style recalls images of that 
land of painters and of the fine arts, where the imagination, 
the fancy, and taste, still revel in a world of beauty and grace. 
The great number of elegant forms which have grown 
softened by a second coloured one below it, serves to light the vestibule. From 
the vestibule we enter the dining-room, 6, 17 by 25 feet. The fine vista through 
the hall, vestibule, and dining-room, 70 feet in length, is here terminated by the 
bay-window at the extremity of the dining-room, which, through the balcony, 
opens on the lawn, varied by groups of shrubbery. On the left side of the ves- 
tibule, through a wide circular headed opening, we enter upon the principal stairs, 
Z. This opening is balanced by a recess on the opposite side of the vestibule. 
From the latter, a door also opens into the library, d, and another into the drawing- 
room, e : offering, by a window in the library, in a line with these doors, another 
fine vista in this direction. The library, 18 by 30 feet, and 16 feet high, is 
fitted up in a rich and tasteful manner, and completely filled with choice 
books. The bay-window, seen on the left in the perspective view, fig. 45, is a 
prominent feature in this room, admitting, through its coloured panes, a pleasing, 
subdued light, in keeping with the character of the apartment. The drawing-room 
is 19 by 30 feet, with an enriched panelled ceiling, 15 feet high. At the extremity 
of this apartment, the veranda, p , with a charming view, affords an agreeable 
lounge in summer evenings, cooled by the breeze from the river. From the 
drawing-room, a glazed door opens to the conservatory, o, and another door to the 
parlour, f. The latter is 18 by 20 feet, looking across the lawn and into the 
conservatory. Among the minor details are a china closet, V, and a butler’s closet, 
s, in the dining-room ; through the latter, the dishes are carried to and from the 
kitchen, larder, etc. The smaller passage leading from the main staircase, opens 
to the store-room, k, and other apartments already designated, and communicates, 
by the back stairs, m, with the servants’ chambers, placed over this part of the 
house, apart from those in the main body of the edifice. The large kitchen area, 
t, is sunk one story, by whieh the noise and smells of the kitchen, situated under 
the dining-room, are entirely excluded from the principal story. In this sunk 
story, are also a wash-room, scullery, and ample room for cellarage, wine, coals, 
etc. A forcing-pump supplies the whole house with water from the river ; and in 
the second story are eight principal chambers, averaging 360 square feet each., 
making in all 25 rooms in the house, of large size. 
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