This design is calculated to give convenient accommodations for a small family, without great expense. Two of the most costly features, usually, of a house, are avoided - the bay-window and veranda. The place of the latter is supplied by a grape trellis, of which the first cost would be but trifling, and instead of requiring constant expense to keep it in repair, would prove rather a source of profit. The walk beneath it should be either paved or thoroughly gravelled.

The principal entrance is through an open porch, which is supported by half-length turned posts, the lower part being ceiled. A small circular window lights the stairway in the front hall, H, and occupies the narrow panel at one side of the porch; and there is a lighted closet under the stairs.

Contrary to the almost universal custom, the largest and pleasantest room in this design is not set apart to be kept darkened most of the time, and only used a few times in the course of the year. In how many houses which we see, the principal and most costly part of the structure seems only erected for a barricade between the street and the little back wing, the only part commonly used.

COTTAGE DESIGNED BY MYRON B. BENTON.

The parlor, P, is, however, a pleasant room, 12x15 feet, with two windows, (one of which opens under the trellis,) and communicates with both halls. The living-room is a larger room, 15x20 feet, and is designed, also, for the dining-room, and connects with the kitchen, K, by the back hall; the pantry, p, opening from both. The back hall, h, furnishes a side entrance, without an outside door, opening directly into the living-room, or the necessity of traversing the kitchen for that purpose; a fault too common in small houses. Though no chambers over the back wing are given in the plan, yet a stairway is placed in this passage, as being conveniently situated, in case subsequent enlargements should be required, by raising that part another story. The bed-room, B, is 11 x 11 feet, and might be warmed by the pipe from the kitchen stove, passing through the partition.

The chamber plan gives four bed-rooms, without any in the back wing, which would furnish two or three more, if made of equal height with the front part:-A, 9x11 feet, with two closets and a recessed window-seat; B, 12x15 feet, opening on the balcony, b; C, 8 x 12 feet, lighted by the projecting dormer; and 2), 10 x 13 feet.

The cost of construction would, perhaps, be about $1200.