SOUTHERN CULTIVATOR. 
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The next example is much more pretentious and ornate 
and is styled 
A SOUTHERN VILLA. 
This house consists of a large center and two wings, 
connected by two covered arcades of one story each. It 
is entered under a veranda 12 feet wide, which extends 
the whole length of the front, and is also continued around 
each side of the projecting portion of the center. The 
entrance door leads to an elliptical vestibule, 10x17, hav- 
ing four niches for statuettes, vases, etc. The vestibule 
opens on the right into a parlor 17x21, and on the left 
into a drawing-room of a like size. Each of these rooms 
is lighted by two windows, of which those at the ends of 
the rooms are projecting. The vestibule at its farther end 
leads into a hall 8 feet wide, which extends across the 
whole central portion of the building, and being continued 
outside of the center at each end so far as to embrace the 
veranda, terminates in an open arcade which leads to the 
wings. The center and wings at the rear of the building 
are also connected by two open arcades in the manner 
shown. Passing across the hall, we find the principal 
stairs, consisting of three flights — a central flight leading 
to the first landing, and two return flights, one on each 
side of the central, each of which return or side flights 
lands upon the chamber floor. The staircase is 14.6x17, 
and the entrance to it may be richly ornamented by 
means of two pilasters or columns supporting an arch 
above. Passing on towards the rear of the building un- 
der the first landing of the stairs, we find two closets to 
the right, and under the first landing a door leading to a 
gentleman’s dressing-room, 10x12.6, with closet attached ; 
and at the opposite side of the landing we find a door 
opening upon a lobby which leads to one of the arcades at 
the rear of the building, before noticed. Returning to 
the hall, and proceeding along it to the light of the prin- 
cipal entrance, we find a dining-room, 16x28, lighted by a 
large w'ndow at the end ; it is octangular in form, and by 
making it of this shape, four closets are obtained at the 
angles, as shown, This room has three doors, one open- 
ing upon one of the arcades at the rear, another opening 
to a passage which communicates with the waiter’s 
room, and the third opening to the hall. The waiter’s 
room, is 7.6x9, and communicates with — a small closet ; 
a pantry 6x13.6 ; and a store-room, 8.6x13.6; the store- 
room has also a door into the front arcade. Continuing 
our progress along the arcade, we find, immediately after 
passing the store room, a lobby which leads to a a gentle- 
man’s bath room, and also communicates with a staircase 
in the right wing of the building. Two doors open at the 
bottom of this staircase — one to a billiard-room, 16x18.6, 
at the rear of the wing, having a closet under the stairs 
before alluded to, and with a door opening upon one of 
the rear arcades ; the other door at the bottom of the 
stairs leads to a smoking room, 11.4x16, which has also a 
door communicating with the arcade in front. Two clos- 
ets are attached to the smoking-room, with a door be- 
ween, opening upon a platform occupying the space be- 
tween the closets, extending to the front of the wing, and 
covered so as to form an open recessed space from the 
