Rural Architecture: Being a Complete Description of Farm Houses, Cottages and Out Buildings

Headings in the Table of Contents are often different from the body text. All secondary indentations were added by the transcriber, representing text sections that have no distinct header. Line breaks were added when a single entry has two different links. There is no separate list of illustrations. Full-page plates have been placed before the discussion of each Design. The page number in the printed book is retained in the Table of Contents and some picture captions, and in marginal page numbers shown in parentheses. Floor plans of cottages and farm buildings have generally been moved to the Interior Arrangement sections; they were originally printed on the same page as the "Elevation". Page. Prefatory, 9 Introductory, 13 General Suggestions, 19 Style of Building—Miscellaneous, 23 Position of Farm Houses, 29 Home Embellishments, 32 Material for Farm Buildings, 37 Outside Color of Houses, 42 A Short Chapter on Taste, 48 The Construction of Cellars, 54 Ventilation of Houses, 56 Interior Accommodation of Houses, 65 Chimney Tops, 68 Preliminary to our Designs, 69 Design A Farm House, 72 Interior Arrangement, 75 Ground Plan, 76 Chamber Plan, 77 Miscellaneous, 80 As a Tenant House, 81 Design IDescription, 84 Ground and Chamber Plans, 89 Interior Arrangement, 90 Miscellaneous Details, 95 Printed Contents indents "Miscellaneous Details," as if a subchapter to House Design IDesign IIDescription, 101 Ground and Chamber Plans, 105 Interior Arrangement, 106 Miscellaneous, 111 Design IV. Description, 114 Interior Arrangement, 118 Ground Plan, 119 Chamber Plan, 120 Surrounding Plantations, Shrubbery, Walks, &c., 125 Tree Planting in the Highway, 129 Printed Contents indents "Tree Planting," as if a subchapter to House Design IV. Design V. Description, 133 Interior Arrangement, 135 Ground Plan, 136 Chamber Plan, 142 Construction, Cost of Building, &c., 147 Grounds, Plantations, and Surroundings, 149 Design VA Southern, or Plantation House, 154 Interior Arrangement, 159 Chamber Plan, 162 Carriage House, 163 Miscellaneous, 163 Lawn and Park Surroundings, 166 An Ancient New England Family, 168 An American Homestead of the Last Century, 169 Estimate of Cost of Design VI, 172 Design VIA Plantation House, 175 Interior Arrangement, 176 Ground Plan, 177 Chamber Plan, 178 Miscellaneous, 179 Printed Contents shows "Miscellaneous" (above) as a new chapter, but indents "Lawns..." (below). Lawns, Grounds, Parks, and Woods, 181 The Forest Trees of America, 183 Influence of Trees and Forests on the Character of men, 184 Hillhouse and Walter Scott as Tree Planters, 187 Doctor Johnson, no Rural Taste, 188 The following three headings— Fruit Garden, Kitchen Garden, Flowers— appear in the body text as separate chapters. Fruit Garden—Orchard, 194 How to lay out a Kitchen Garden, 197 Flowers, 202 Wild Flowers of America, 203 Succession of Home Flowers, 206 Farm Cottages, 208 Design I, and Ground Plan, 213 Interior Arrangement 214 Design II, and Ground Plan, 216 Interior Arrangement, 216 Design III, and Ground Plan, 220 Interior Arrangement, 220 Design IV, and Ground Plan, 226 Interior Arrangement, 229 Cottage Outside Decoration, 231 Cottages on the Skirts of Estates, 233 House and Cottage Furniture, 235 Apiary, or Bee House, 246 View of Apiary and Ground Plan, and description, 249 Mode of Taking the Honey, 252 An Ice House, 258 Elevation and Ground Plan, 260 An Ash House and Smoke House, 264 Elevation and Ground Plan, 265 The Poultry House, 267 Elevation and Ground Plan, 269 Interior Arrangement, 271 The Dovecote, 275 Different Varieties of Pigeons, 278 A Piggery, 279 Elevation and Ground Plan, 281 Interior Arrangement, 282 Construction of Piggery—Cost, 283 Farm Barns, 286 Design Description, 291 Interior Arrangement, and Main Floor Plan, 293 Underground Plan, and Yard, 295 Design IDescription, 300 Interior Arrangement, 303 Floor Plan, 304 Barn Attachments, 308 Rabbits, 311 Mr. Rotch's Description of his Rabbits, 313 Rabbits and Hutch, 315 Dutch, and English Rabbits, 318 Mode of Feeding, 319 Mr. Rodman's Rabbitry, Elevation, and Floor Plan, 322 Explanations, 323 "Explanations" not indented in printed Contents. Loft or Garret, Explanation