Identifier: villascottages00vaux (find matches)
Title: Villas and cottages
Year: 1874 (1870s)
Authors: Vaux, Calvert, 1824-1895
Subjects: Architecture, Domestic
Publisher: New York, Harper & brothers
Contributing Library: Getty Research Institute
Digitizing Sponsor: Getty Research Institute

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VILLAS AND COTTAGES. 131 DESIGN No. 2. A SMALL RURAL DOUBLE COTTAGE. No. 2 is a design for a cottage for two small fam-ilies. Under the farmers living-room is a basement-kitchen, with the windows considerably out of ground,and under the coachmans kitchen is a cellar: the en-trances are, as will be perceived, quite distinct. Upstairs the farmer has three bedrooms; the coachmanbut one, according to instructions. Such a cottagewould cost about $1800, neatly finished. Such a plan would not be unsuitable for a lodge,in which the families of a gardener and gate-keepercould live, or it might be fitted up a little more com-pletely, and offer convenient accommodation to twofriends who felt inclined to build it on some agreea-ble rural lot for a few months quiet residence in thesummer. It seems strange that this idea should not be morefrequently acted on than is the case at present. Faraway from the fashionable watering-places, but easilyaccessible from the cities—in the heart of Vermont,for

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