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FARM BUILDINJS. 
FARM BUILDINGS, No. 2. 
I gave ir your January number, pp. 22 and 23, Figs. 
2 and 3, a Iront view of the above farm house, and a 
plan and d scription of the ground story. I now for¬ 
ward a g^'-le end view of the house, and the plans of 
cellar and chamber. 
Plan of Cellar. —Fig. 7. 
Exp anation of Cellar , Fig. 7, the walls of which 
are 18 inches thick, and 74 feet high, laid up in stone 
and mortar. 
1. Outer steps, 5 feet wide,10 inches rise, and 1 foot 
tread, with double shed door outside, and inner door 
at bottom. 
2. Kitchen stairs and landing, 3 feet wide. 
3. Principal root cellar, with bins, &c. 
4. Chimney foundations, 5 feet square, made of 
stone laid in mortar. 
5. Cistern, 7 feet square in the clear, made of stone 
walls, 18 inches thick, laid in water cement. 
6. Ash-pit, and chimney foundation of stone. 
7. Milk room, 14 feet by 10. 
8. Apple, meat, and provision cellar, 28 feet by 14. 
Explanation of Chamber Story, Fig. 8. 
1. Chamber stairs, with landing at the head, and 
railing around the passage way. 
2. Passage 19 feet by 8, with a swing window of 
four lights at the end. 
3 and 4. Sleeping rooms, 14 feet by 10, and 14 
feet by 9 ; a swing window of nine lights ventilat¬ 
ing and lighting the room 4, from 3. A door window 
in the roof, over the piazza, would light this from 
the outside, and look well. 
5. Large sleeping room for workmen, 22 feet by 
15, with a flue in the chimney for a stove pipe. 
6. Low garret room, over the kitchen, which is 
useful for different purposes. 
Plan of Chamber Story.— Fig. 8. 
This house is partially patch-work; the main 
part of which being 34 by 22 feet, one and a half 
stories high, and 13 feet posts, I removed from some 
distance, and placed over the cellar. I then added a 
lean-to, with a shed roof running off from the rear 
eaves of the main part to a height of 9 feet posts. 
This addition is 16 feet wide by 34 long. The front 
and rear roof have a pitch of one quarter, while the 
lean-to roof has a pitch of one sixth, giving it an 
agreeable slope to the eave trough. The piazza roof 
reaches to within 18 inches of the eaves on the front, 
and has a pitch of one sixth—the roof turned or hip¬ 
ped at the ends. The posts of the porch are young 
pin-oak trees (we have no pine nor cedar near), with 
the scraggy limbs left, and rounded 8 or 10 inches 
long, to support honeysuckles or climbing roses, 
which should always ornament a farm house or cot¬ 
tage. The sills of the house stand 24 feet above the 
level of the ground. 
The chambers of the house, three in number, are 
sufficiently high for lodging, and under the kitchen 
roof is a low shed room for garret storage. The 
main windows are 24 lights (12 light sash), of 8 by 
10 glass. The chamber, or gable windows, are 15 
lights, composed of 9 and 6 light sash. The lower 
bed-room window is also of 15 lights. The buttery 
window is a sliding one of 9 lights, and a small 4 
light sliding window is over the sink in the kitchen. 
There is also a small swing window of 4 lights at the 
head of the chamber stairs. A small chimney runs 
from a stone foundation in the cellar up through the 
main body of the house, admitting a fire-place each to 
the front rooms, and a stove pipe flue for the princi¬ 
pal chamber. 
In the cellar, under the kitchen sink, is a stone 
cistern, 7 feet square, which will hold 70 barrels rain 
water, filled by a conductor from the eave trough in 
the rear. A pump inserted into this drains the water 
into the sink in the kitchen and wash room ; a water 
cock through the cistern wall also draws it into the 
cellar for the use of the dairy room. In the cellar, 
beneath the kitchen fire-place and oven, is a stone ash 
pit, with an iron door, and a grated passage leading 
into it from one corner of the fire-place. This holds 
80 bushels. The cellar partitions are made of planks 
2 inches thick. 
The porch of the house is very wide in proportion 
to its size. It is thus made for convenience, and 
makes a pleasant place to dine or sup in warm 
weather. 
