Rural Architecture: Being A Complete Description Of Farm Houses, Cottages, And Out Buildings, Comprising Wood Houses, Workshops, Tool Houses, Carriage And Wagon Houses, Stables, Smoke And Ash Houses, Ice Houses, Apiary Or Bee House, Poultry Houses, Rabbitry, Dovecote, Piggery, Barns And Sheds For Cattle, Together With Lawns, Pleasure Grounds And Parks; The Flower, Fruit And Vegetable Garden. Also, Useful And Ornamental Domestic Animals For The Country Resident, Also, The Best Method Of Conducting Water Into Cattle Yards And Houses. This is a high quality book of the original classic edition. This is a freshly published edition of this culturally important work, which is now, at last, again available to you. Enjoy this classic work. These few paragraphs distill the contents and give you a quick look inside: Without going into any extended course of remark, we shall find ample reason for the indifference which has prevailed among our rural population, on the subject of their own domestic architecture, in the absence of familiar and practical works on the subject, by such as have given any considerable degree of thought to it; and, what little thought has been devoted to this branch of building, has been incidentally rather than directly thrown off by those professionally engaged in the finer architectural studies appertaining to luxury and taste, instead of the every-day wants of a strictly agricultural population, and, of consequence, understanding but imperfectly the wants and conveniences of the farm house in its connection with the every-day labors and necessities of farm life. . . . The lover of country life who looks upon rural objects in the true spirit, and, for the first time surveys the cultivated portions of the United States, will be struck with the incongruous appearance and style of our farm houses and their contiguous buildings; and, although, on examination