In our illustration, Fig. 19, we give a perspective view of a picturesque and most admirable exterior of a modern gothic-roofed story-and-a-half house. This is particularly adapted for a country house or .suburban residence with plenty of room around it, and should be set on an elevation, the ground sloping away in all directions, with plenty of surrounding shrubbery. The clipped or hooded gables, trimmed with neat tracery and broad projections of roof and cornices, with wide veranda and canopy tops over the windows, all do much toward making up the general form and graceful outline of the house.

Fig. 19.

The first floor contains four large rooms; viz, parlor, sitting-room, dining-room, kitchen with pantry, and bathroom, besides a fine hall and easy staircase. On the second floor are four good bed-rooms and a closet to each, with a hall opening into all rooms.

The sides of house are clapboarded in the usual manner and the roof shingled. The house should be painted on the outside in two modern colors of light drab or stone color for body, and darker trimmings. Such a house, furnished in first-class style, would probably not exceed $1700 in cash.