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childrens bed rooms 10 and 11 into the main back gallery, and thence into the pantry and Store room, or out to the kitchen
The pantry situated as it is, will be convenient to the kitchen, and dining room, and store room, and will be a use:ful and handy place • to arrange and prepare the materials and knicknacks of a dinner or supper-also to keep crockery ware &c &c. The west.wing will be a very pleasant and a very private family room either for summer or winter. • The dining room is large enough to entertain company in handsome stile without being jamed to death for want of room-and it will make a very pleasant sitting room winter or summer·- The door into the back gallery will communicate with the kitchen and pantry. The East wing will make a room for S. F. Austin, and will be con- nected with the body of the house through the glass door into the dining room out of the front gallery of the East wing.-· The body of the room ought to be 14 feet between the floors so as to give the roof a sufficient pitch over the galleries- The wings ought to be 12 feet between the floors and fiat roofs with banisters around them- By raising the house four or five feet from the ground, a cellar may be easily made under a part of it- The whole body of the house might be raised now and enclosed, making a calculation to add the two wings afterwards, taking care to have the fireplaces made on the outside of the wings, and also to have all the mortises made that might be necessary to unite the wings to the main body and the wings could then be put up next year when there is more time to do it- The west half of the main part of the house, tha.t is the i:ooms 6. 7. 10. 11. and 3 might be finished this winter and spring so as to receive the family, and the whole of the east part of the house might be let alone and finished next summer and fall- Lime is so convenient there from shells, that I would lathe and plaster the inside of all the rooms it will be much cheaper I think than to ciel them with planks By commencing on this plan the whole of it may be finished at different times at a leisure spell or according as workmen and lum- ber can be had for the family can move as soon as the rooms 6. 7. 10. and 11 are.finished, or even half finished- This house will be a con- venient one and large enough for your family and leave some rooms to accomodate friends and visitors, of whom you will have a num- ber after a while- In a year or two, should more room be wanted, another story can very easily be put on to each of the wings I think that 10 feet is wide enough for the passage, this passage is in fact but of little use except to divide the house and make the rooms
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