RURAL ARCHITECTURE. 
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RURAL ARCHITECTURE. 
The accompanying design of a farmhouse, is 
from a work now in press, by Mr. L. F. Allen, 
of Black Rock, entitled “ Rural Architecture.” It 
will soon be published by C. M. Saxton, at 152 
Fulton street, N. Y. Judging from what we 
have seen in manuscript, it will immediately 
wagon houses; a piggery, poultry house, and 
dove cote; together with a chapter or two on 
general farming, improved stock, gardens, orch¬ 
ards, parks and lawns. 
Design III .—We here present the reader 
with a substantial, plain, yet highly respectable 
stone or brick farm house of the second class, 
take rank among the best works of the kind. 
The author has had great experience in rural 
architecture, is a man of taste, and we think 
his designs will prove generally acceptable to 
the wants and wishes of his countrymen. The 
work will not only contain cottages and farm 
houses, but barns, stables, sheds, tool, cart, and 
suitable for an estate of three to five hundred 
acres; and accommodations for a family of a 
dozen or more persons. The style is mixed 
rural Gothic, Italian and bracketed; yet in 
keeping with the character of the farm, and tho 
farmer’s standing and occupation. 
The main body of this house is 42 by 24 feet 
