•May, 185S. 
AMERICAN AGRICULTURIST. 
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Fig. 7 -A FIRST CLASS FARM DWELLING AND ITS IMMEDIATE APPENDAGES. 
of the room between the rear window, and large 
closet door, thus giving, in Winter, additional 
warmth to the apartment. In the partition next 
the front stairs is a door leading down under them 
to the cellar ; another door in the rear, leading 
into a large dish and provision closet, 10x5 feet, 
and through that, into a buttery of the same size ; 
or these, without the partition, may be in one 
commodious room. Another door leads into a rear 
Fig. 8-PLAN OF FIRST STORY. 
ha , 4 feet wide, and 10 feet long, running into 
ihe wash room, or back kitchen ; this hall also 
communicating by a door with the wing verandah. 
From this rear hall, a door next the inner kitch¬ 
en door, or leading immediately out of the inner 
kitchen, if preferred, leads up a flight of back¬ 
stairs into the wing, thus relieving the front stairs 
from common use. Thus, then, our family kitch¬ 
en, by the aid of the back-kitchen, or wash-room, 
marked R. if., 18x18 feet, is relieved from the 
rough work of the house, leaving it always capa¬ 
ble of use, as a neat, tidy affair, where the meals 
are eaten, the lighter labor done, and the family 
gathered at all seasons, as they may chose, for do 
mestic enjoyment. It may be well to remark that 
the kitchen chimney, giving so large accommoda¬ 
tion as it does to tlife fire-place and oven, should 
be spacious in its foundation, and carried up 
broadly through the lower story and contracted 
above only to the necessary space for the flues to 
carry off their smoke effectually. The opposite 
chimney should also, at its outlet in the roof, be 
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of the same size to show uniformity outside, al¬ 
though its flues require less room than the other. 
The back-wing is 8 feet high only in its lower 
rooms, and its kitchen has a sufficient chimney at 
its rear end, to accommodate a fire place if need¬ 
ed, a boiler, cooking stove, and all the require¬ 
ments for Tough and heavy in-door work, such as 
washing, baking, trying out lard or tallow, 
and any other work of the household. It is 
lighted in the rear by two windows, with a win¬ 
dow, and door leading to the verandah in front, 
and from that to the woodhouse in rear. A door 
in the far end leads to the bathing room, 10x8 
feet, lighted also by a small window. The water 
for the bath may be heated in a boiler in the back 
kitchen, and drawn by a pipe immediately into 
the bath, or pumped up from a cistern directly 
back of the chimney under the woodhouse. In 
rear of the bath room is the privy, or water closet, 
accessible at all times, undercover. A door way 
also leads down cellar under the back chamber 
stairway, if necessary. 
CHAMBER ACCOMMODATION. 
This needs little remark. A turn of two feet in 
the upper story lands on a floor three feet wide, 
leading to the front hall, 8 feet wide, and by a 
door-window, on to the balcony over the verandah, 
protected by a railing. The floor of this balcony 
should be slightly inclined outward, and floored 
tightly over with lead, tin or zinc, and painted, or 
if not needed the balcony may be left off altogeth¬ 
er, and the verandah show only a plain roof 
throughout. It is a thing of luxury only, although, 
we think, adding to the architectural variety of 
the building, and may be retained or dispensed 
with, at pleasure. A chamber door leads, on 
either side of the hall, into a spacious sleeping 
room, with closets. A door in rear of the hall, 
from the head of the stairs, leads into a rear hall 
with a large bed clothes closet, 8x5 feet, and 
another sleeping room, 16x13 feet, and round to 
another sleeping room, of 12x16 feet, into the rear 
passage over the lower room of the rear wing. In 
this rear hall of the main building is a flight of 
garret stairs, leading from its rear part, up 
into the center of the loft overheaddjvhere all 
sorts of garret storage will find accommoda¬ 
tions, or further sleeping rooms, even, can 
be made. A house of this size, however, 
will hardly require them. 
Leading back, down three steps, this rear 
passage leads into a narrow hall, 4 feet wide, 
round to the head of the wing flight of stairs, 
and into a lodging room, 12x10 feet, and into 
another, 16x18 feet, lor the use of the labor¬ 
ers who board and lodge in the house, if any ; 
or for such other use as may be necessary. Thus, 
either flight of stairs leads all over the chamber 
rooms, at will, or, by locking one of the passage 
doors, egress may be confined to either part of 
the chamber at pleasure 
The wood-house is 16 feet wide, and may be 
extended to any length required. It is a cheap 
building, any wav, and we would have it ample in 
size, and accommodation. Its hight is such as to 
admit the wing porch, or verandah, to run into its 
roof on a level. It has a double or ridge roof, and 
