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PLANS OF RESIDENCES 
Plate VIII. 
A simple Plan for a Corner Lot one hundred by one hundred and 
seventy feet, with Stable and Carriage-house accommodations. 
By referring to Plates IX and XII, and comparing them with 
the one now under consideration, it will be seen that there is a 
similarity in the forms and sizes of the lots and the house-plans. 
A comparison of their differences will be interesting. Plates VIII 
and IX represent corner lots ioo x 170 feet, having stable and 
carriage-house accommodations, while Plate XII is an in-lot 
100 x 160 feet, without those luxuries, but with convenience for 
keeping a cow. Plan VIII is designed to illustrate the utmost 
simplicity of style, requiring the minimum of trouble and expense 
in its maintenance. In both plans the nearest part of the house 
stands thirty feet from the side street, and eighty-two feet from 
the street upon which the bay-windows look out. On this plan 
the short straight walk from the side street to the veranda is 
the only one that requires to be carefully made, and is but 
twenty-seven feet in length from the street to the steps ; while on 
Plate IX there is an entrance from both streets, connected by a 
curving walk with the main house entrance, and other walks to the 
kitchen entrances and carriage-house. This difference in the walks 
is suggestive of the greater embellishment of the latter plan in all 
other respects, and, with its vases, flower-beds, and more numerous 
groups of shrubbery, indicates the necessity for the constant services 
of a gardener. Plan VIII, on the other hand, with its plain lawn, 
and groups of trees which require but little care, and its few plain 
flower-beds, may easily be taken care of by any industrious pro¬ 
prietor, before and after the hours devoted to town business—- 
especially if the wife will assume the care of the flowers—and if 
the lawn is in high condition, and the trees are kept growing lux¬ 
uriantly, the simplicity of the planting will not result in any lack 
of that air of elegance which most persons desire to have theit 
places express; for it is not so much costliness and elaborateness 
that challenges the admiration of cultivated people as the uncon- 
