Democratic Sentinel, Volume 18, Number 16, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 4 May 1894 — A MODEL RESIDENCE. [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

A MODEL RESIDENCE.

ELEGANT HOME FOR ONE WITH MODERATE MEANS. Suitable for Any Part of the Country Except the Extreme South—Costa Little More than the Ugrly Packing Boxes the* Some Erect. Handsome and Convenient. The first edition of Palllser’s Model Homes contains a design very similar to this, and from which the ideas in this are worked up, with the addition of another room on each floor and another bay-window and a change in the detail on the exterior—> fact, there is scarcely anything

left to remind one of the other design; and it is often the case that people will examine a plan and will say that it is just what they want, with such and such changes, and when the necessary changes are made to suit their ideas there is nothing left by which one can recognize anything of the first plan. The roofs are all slated, which Is decidedly the best and cheapest—when we take everything Into account—method of roofing, besides being elegant; and in favorable localities can be laid for $8 per 100 square feet of surface. For a person of moderate means, wishing an elegant home with the interior comforts and conveniences it contains, we can with confidence rec-

ommend this design. It is suitable for any part of the country except the extreme South, and the owner of such a house will find that its money value is far above that of a square box of the same capacity, and it costa but a trifle more than the ugly packing boxes that some people seem bound to erect in opposition to all artistic ideas. It can be built for about #2,200. In some instances we have known houses of nice design, properly managed, erected for less money than these square boxes giving but the same amount of accommodation, and which a great many people seem to think it is necessary to build if they would do so cheaply.

Usually too little attention has been paid to roofs and chimneys of houses, and they appear to have been treated as necessary evils, instead of their being made, as they should be, both useful and ornamental. A flat roof for this climate can hardly be called useful, as the action of the heat and cold on it will b& more than likely to open the seams of the flat* root, and the force of a sudden shower will find its way through, sadly to the detriment of the interior decoration, as well as to the comfort and the commendable equability of temper of the inmates. In our northern climate we should have steep roofs, so as to readily shed the heavy rains and snows, and we think this cottage is well protected in this respect. The floor plans, we think, need very little explanation, as they fully explain themselves. (Copyright by PaUiser. Palllser <fc Co., N. V.) 1 "I? 1 1 '!

PERSPECTIVE VIEW.

PLAN OF FIRST FLOOR.

PLAN OF SECOND FLOOR.