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U9 sue something in Rural. You will see I 
intend the one room to answer for both sit¬ 
ting and dining-room. Want also a hall be¬ 
tween sitting or dining-room and kitchen, 
and if there can be, without much additional 
expense, a bedroom either over or attached 
to back building for servant girl. M. H. H. 
Washington, Tazewell Co., Ill. 
PLAN OF COTTAGE RESIDENCE WANTED 
iluntl Architecture 
C. _ / L I j 
I design ljuilding a cottage residence ; will 
have to front West; have a fine slope South 
and West; road passes West. T like the 
Wilson cottage, of Beverly, O., in Rural 
New-Yorker, Feb. 15—that is, its size and 
general appearance outside ; but i want two 
bedrooms down stairs, one, say, 12 by 12 or 
15 feet, the other not so large ; would like to 
have them open into sitting or dining-room, 
so in Winter the fire there would somewhat 
warm them. Parlor, say, 15 by 15, on the 
West, with bay-window. Sitting or dining¬ 
room, say, 15 by 15, with bay-window on the 
South. Verandah, and hall going from Ve¬ 
randah on South side of parlor. Up-stairs 
A NEAT FARM-HOUSE 
Our readers must remember that we are 
not professional architects ; nor do we pro¬ 
pose to make ourselves a substitute for such. 
We publish inquiries from our correspond¬ 
ents, answer them if we can, or have the 
time; if not our readers may. Elsewhere 
we publish an inquiry from an Illinoisan. It 
seems to ua that one who knows so thorough¬ 
ly what he wants, might, with the aid of an 
intelligent carpenter (not to say architect) 
devise a plan to meet those wants. 
The accompanying elevation and plans are 
not given in response to M. H. IT. ’s inquiry, 
but to d. F. G.’a and W, H. R.’s, neither of 
whose wishes (as expressed) it will exactly 
meet, but may modify both. The main 
building, of stoue, is *10 by -fit feet, and two 
stories in bight. The L part is but one story. 
CRITICISM ON MR. WILSON’S RESIDENCE 
I cannot refrain from criticising the plan 
for a cottage given in the Rural New-York¬ 
er of Feb. 15th, and which the owner of the 
cottage suys “is exceedingly comfortable 
and convenient,” from which it. is very evi¬ 
dent that men’s ideas of comfort differ very 
materially. In the four principal rooms of 
this cottage the doors are placed within a 
few feet of the fire place, so that a circle 
sitting round the fire would have a draft of 
cold am lot in on them every time the door 
was opened—not a pleasant thing in such a 
climate as this. The object, 1 suppose, of 
placing the chimneys where they are, was to 
have them in the internal walls ; but much 
more is lost than gained by the present ar¬ 
rangements. In the diuing room the chirn- 
I ney might be huilt in the internal wall, sepa¬ 
rating it from the parlor by removing the 
door to the other end of the room, near the 
kitchen. w. 
New York City. 
PLAN OF SECOND FLOOR, 
rooms as best suited to shape. This is the 
main building. Then a large kitchen, say, 12 
by 15, East of maiu house, with a good-sized 
pantry either North or East of kitchen. Ve¬ 
randah South of Kitchen. Cistern on kitch¬ 
en verandah. Bath-room near cistern. 
Now, how to get all this in some such shape 
as the Wilson cottage is what I want. Let 
the living-room. G is a Wash-room, lb by lb, 
which may be used as a Summer-kitchen. H 
is the Dairy, and I the Wood-house. The 
Kitchen, F, Ifi fe3t square, opens by a bach 
door upon a broad stone platform, undei 
which the steps next, the main building de 
scend to the cellar, 
The Wash room, G, 
has, beside the fire¬ 
place a circular copper r 
boiler set for boiling ,. & ,■ #>, 4 I) 
the clothes. The Dai- 
ry, II, may, if thought 
best, be sunk three 
feet below the level of - 
the wash-house, and 
paved with flag-stones 
cool; a stone shelf be- 1 
ing around the outside £ 3 
for milk pans. The rrSSpT' 'VsJjK&JU 
wood-house has a large i 
loading from wagons. 
The second floor has ’ JkSlp 
four Bedroom*, J, J, 
each 18 by 18; K, IT £KjjjPgP^j 
by 20, and L, 8 by 12 1 *£ 
feet. There is also M 
aiqple room for closets. - 
Above this story is a 
roomy garret. .—-**»•. 
Now this plan may -i&L&g 2 
be called a little old- 
fashioned, and it may jji 
require much moditi- f| \j 
cation to meet the 
wants of many of our 
Downing, and is cop- 
ied from his “Cottage : .. 
Residences.” It is giv- jfcf 
en as a suggestion, and fV,,*;.' 
PLAN OF FIRST FLOOR. 
and draws all the materials himself, Mr. D. 
estimated the building (when he wrote the 
book) to cost *1,700. It would probably cost 
double that amount now. 
HOW TO BUILD A SMOKE-HOUSE 
A reader of the Rural New-Yorker, asks 
for a plan for a smoke-house. I will give you 
an account of mine, as 
it suits me for farm 
use. Make the si2e to 
please you—five by six 
feet will do. Dig out 
the ground the whole 
size below the frost; 
fill up with stone to the 
surface; then lay fiat 
stone and mortar one 
foot above the surface 
of the ground, (to keep 
: _ . the moisture from 
” • cracking the wall); 
then lay a single brick 
. MJ* wall eight, feet high; 4 
ft. from tlie stone work 
lay one tier of brick 
’ endwise on the sides ; 
they will stick out cm 
the inside to receive a 
" ^' floor that will hold a 
K*' J man. Make the door 
\ dx feet long, three feet 
below the floor; the 
three feet below will 
,Ji ||&\:give you access to your 
WmSkajm ash-room and plenty 
• of room for access to 
your smoke-room. 
■D Hang your meat on the 
u i rafters and plate, (have 
..Ijij ljlMlJijMli 1 your plate eight inch- 
JgyVv cflL es wide). Make your 
• nnoke on the ashes ; 
r out quite white. A 
smoke every other day 
for ten days is sufll- 
cient. Don’t make any 
holes in the floor; the 
smoke will find its 
"* ‘ way through. 
E. Bond. 
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