Rural architecture : being a complete description of farm houses, cottages and out buildings ... together with lawns, pleasure grounds and parks; the flower, fruit and vegetable gardens : also, useful and ornamental domestic animals for the country resident ... also, the best method of conducting water into cattle yards and houses
Lewis F. Allen's 1860 pattern book from New York publisher C.M. Saxton, Barker & Co., written for farmers and country residents planning houses, cottages, barns and grounds. Wood-engraved perspective views of clapboard farmhouses with porches and dormers sit beside heavy-lined floor plans labeled by room and dimension, offering black-and-white architectural diagrams and hatched landscape vignettes for reuse.
