THIs house was designed for a lot sixty feet wide on a village street, and should be placed quite near the line on the left hand side of the lot, leaving the wide open space on the other side for a road or paths, and grass and trees.

It is designed to be built of wood, with a cellar underneath it, the cellar floor being only three feet below the surface of the ground, on account of dampness, making the principal floor about five feet above the grade. A part of this five feet is banked up, forming a grass-terrace all around the house, and the balance is made up by the brick under-pinning.

The veranda is reached by steps, as shown in the perspective, and from it we enter the front door.

The rooms on the principal floor are: a parlor, No. 2, fifteen feet square, not including the bay window ; No. 3, a kitchen of the same size; No. 4, a bedroom 10 by 13, having in it a closet at the side of the chimney; No. 5, a pantry or sink room; and No. 6, a store room. The pantry has a pump and sink, and the store room is fitted up with shelves and cupboards. The stairs are in the front hall, and under the principal flight is the stairway to the cellar. The second story has three bedrooms, two good sized dressing rooms, and a convenient bathing room.

The frame is made of hemlock, the walls are filled in with brick laid on edge in mortar, and the side with narrow, clear pine siding. The roof is covered with hemlock boards, and shingled with sawed cedar or pine shingles.

The projection of the eaves is three and a-half feet, and the gables have sawed edgings or verge boards. The inside is lathed and plastered and hard finished throughout. The floors are of pine floor plank.

The bases are six inches high, moulded, and the window and door trimmings are four and a-half inches wide, moulded. The doors are all four panelled, one and a quarter inches thick, moulded on the exposed side, and all have locks and brown mineral trimmings. The closets all have shelves and drawers and clothes hooks. The principal story is nine feet high, and the chambers nine feet high in the centre, and five feet in the caves.

The cottage can be built for $2,500.