ALBERT R. MANN LIBRARY AT CORNELL UNIVERSITY CORNELL UNIVERSITY LIBRARY The original of tliis book is in the Cornell University Library. There are no known copyright restrictions in the United States on the use of the text. http://www.archive.org/details/cu31924055048718 WOODWARD'S SUBURBAN AND COUNTRY HOUSES GEO. E. WOODWARD, ABCHITEGT, AUTHOR OP "WOOnWAED'a OCnNTBT HOMES;" " WOODWARD'8 NATIOKAT. architect; " " "woodward's cottages and TASn HOUSES ; " "woodward's ohaperies," etc. New Yoi\k; : GKO. E. WOODWARD. ORANGE JUDD & CO., 345 BROADWAY (^150^4- Sntered according to Act of Congress, in the year 1873, Bt GEOKGB B. WOODWAED, In the Office of the Librarian of Congress, at Washington. INTRODUCTION. We endeavor to give in each new work on Rural Archi- tecture some fresh and valuable suggestions relative to designing and building Country Houses, and to meet, to some extent, the improving taste for convenient and beau- tiful homes, beautiful homes. There is a growing appreciation for improved styles of building which is being recognized throughout all the better settled portions of our country. Moi-e favorable sites are chosen, and more consideration given to views from the house and to the effect produced by the house from all points. In a country like this, abounding in desirable locations with agreeable surroundings, there is ample space for displaying good judgment in the selection of a site on which to build and embeUish a country residence. The position of the building should be settled some- what by the tastes of the family who are to occupy it. VI INTRODUCTION. Convenient access, sunny exposures, commanding views, trees, etc., are all to be considered ; but the best spot on the property owned is the one to be made use of, and minor requirements to be made, as far as possible, to cor- respond. In this, as in a former work, we give different combi- nations of plans, to suit requirements made by different tastes or necessities. But as we live in the country for room, fresh air, daylight, and sunshine, we must necessa- rily condemn all underground apartments. Cellar kitch- ens and other similar contrivances may be tolerated as a matter of economy oftly in the first cost ; and wherever built through such necessities, the time should always be looked forward to when suitable additions can be made above ground. In " Cottages and Farm Houses" a number of designs were given for low-priced cottages, farm-houses, etc., together with numerous plans for barns and all classes of out-build- ings, and designs for laying out and embellishing small plots of ground from small village lots up to ten acres in extent. This number is devoted more particularly to a class of houses contemplating a more liberal expenditure and introducing examples of the French or Mansard roof which is attracting attention from all ; and when amount INTRODUCTION. VU of room is considered, is as economical as any style that can be selected. It is not, however, so suitable for small cottages. To have the best effect, it should be applied to houses of liberal size and accommodation, and should be treated by one thoroughly conversant with its proportions. There is ample room for display of skill in the design of a house with this style of roof, and boldness should be a prominent characteristic. Our plans for the future are to devote our entire atten- tion to the subject of improving Country and Suburban Homes, and developing the beauties of the surrounding grounds ; and we intend, in our future works on this subject, to demonstrate the fact, that the convenience, beauty, and elegance of a Country Home may be attained by a moderate expenditure, and thus making the desire to possess, improve, and retain permanently, become a leading trait with all. Our plans will be practical ; and in addition to the resources of many years of successful professional practice in all departments of Rural Art, we shall give examples of some of the work of the best ex- perts in the profession. We aim to give a reliable progi-essive exponent of Rural Art an invaluable aid to all who seek to have a home around which will cluster the most delightful associations. PRACTICAL STANDARD PUBLICATIONS » ■ OF GEO. 5. WOODWARb.. Harney's Barns, Outbuildings and Fences. 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Full; Ezptaloed and Illustrated by large Bcale DlaCTams, in two colors, with Dea^na for Staif-Oasos, Newels, BalusteiB ai3 H^nd-Bails. Royal qoarto. Post- paid, 16.00. Monekton's National Carpenter and ilotner. ~ . A completa work, coveting the whole adente of Carpentry, 3&aaf, Roofing, 1'ramlng, etc. - Fally Bitplaliied and ninstrated hy laigsfiMU Ule^ams, In two colors. Ro^al qaary careful examination, thoroughly understand the sizes and position of each apartment, and with ordinary inge- nuity adapt a plan for their own wants. Practical hints of this character will be found a valuable aid in making up the ■PiB. 68.— FiEST Floor. plan best suited to the exposures and conyeniences of a diflferent site. We intended, in this work, to yield to a popular demand ^or estimates of cost ; but on further reflection must adhere to the opinions hitherto expressed. Prices are local. The circula- AND E[JEAL AET. 127 tion of this book, like our previous publications, will be not only national but world-wide, and a New York estimate is val- ueless at remote points ; indeed, there is a wide difference in prices between points fifty miles west iind fifty miles north of this city. A good local mechanic should be able to give an ap- proximate estimate from the plans and perspective view as shown in this book. As a general thing, however, these houses in this vicinity would cost from five to seven dollars per square foot of plan ; that is, a two-story cottage, thirty feet square, would have 900 square feet of plan, which at five dollars a foot would be $4,500 ; and .in localities where lumber and labor are cheaper, and a plainer style of finish would answer, three dollars per square foot would probably be the full cost. There are so many contingencies bearing upon the cost of a house, that it seems to be nonsense to give anything like a gen- eral estimate. No two men live alike, dress alike, or make bar- gains alike ; one may be shrewd and careful, the other careless and inattentive ; one may spend the money he earns, and which he knows by experience the uttermost value of, and the other may disburse funds that somebody else has earned for him. Then, again, facilities for procuring supplies easily make con- siderable diiference. The well-to-do farmer, located within a reasonable distance of a navigable stream, with stone quarry and sand-bank on his own place, availing himself in the dull season of his own help and teams, and counting all this as nothing — which is the usual style— builds cheaper than the city business man, who hires teams at six to eight dollars a day to haul sup- plies long distances over hilly roads, and who can not give the time to closely superintend all the details of construction. Con- tractors will make lower bids in the dull season of the year, and a house put up in favorable weather can be built for less money than when erected in the cold, short days of winter. A me- chanic will lay more shingles on a balmy May day than he will 128 WOODWAEd's AECHITECTtrEB, when the searching blasts of January are freezing fingers and toes. In the interior finish or trimming of a house, it is the best of taste to do everything neatly and plainly ; elaborate moldings, FlQ. I -Secoiid PlOOB. carvings, panneling, etc., are better indications of wealth than of taste, and we lean stronger to the side of substantial and sen- sible expenditure than we do to extravagant show. A style of finish in keeping with the character of the house and the posi- AND EUEAL ART. 129 tion of the owner is all that should be attempted ; and it would be better, also, not to make too decided a difference in different rooms or floors ; not to be too profuse in ornament in the parlor, and scant and naked in the bedrooms. The work should be done for the owner's use and enjoyment, and that which is good enough for him should be good enough for his friends ; better by far decorate the walls with pictures and the room with meri- torious works of art, than a trashy display of superfluous woocl and plaster moldings and machine carvings. Beyond their real useful value, neatly and substantially applied, there is nothing in interior decoration in wood or plaster that may not be en^ tirely eclipsed by judicious and tasteful articles of real merit, ag thus an air of refinement and comfort will be conveyed that can not be produced by the rigid stiffness of profuse mechanical work. One means money ; the other, an inborn and refined taste which money can not buy. The surrounding grounds of a country home should receive careful studj^, and a well-digested plan would be an economical and valuable assistant. No one who wishes a convenient housa built with a knowl- edge of its cost, would go blindly ahead without first preparing his plan ; but some men like to jump into the dark, while others look carefully ahead at the landing-place. A plan for the imj^rovement of grounds has even more combinations than one for building a house. Its leading features embrace the location of barn, outbuildings, fruit and vegetable garden, roads, walks, entrances, la>\Ti, ornamental planting and embellishment with names and location of trees, etc., all so situated as to be best adapted for each purpose, and convenient from the house and from each other. Improvements can thus be earned on year after year, and harmonize with all the surroundings ; whatever is done is properly done, and occupies its proper place ; there is no disposition to change, as no change can be made for the 6* 130 ■woodward's aechiteotuee, bettor ; everything can be carried out intelligently and econom- ically, and the best results obtained. It may be a matter of surprise to many to learn how inti- mately the arts of design are united with those of construction, or rather the great use made of a draftsman's skill in developing a work of art, exhibiting its effect, and conveying to the most jjractical mind its most simple form of production. In architec- ture, machinery, etc., this is admitted, because the general edu- cation of popular taste enables us to understand how we can execute an idea on paper, and carry out a practical result in ac- cordance with it ; but when we come to a more intricate form of construction, and more particularly that which relates to landscape adornment, we fail, as a general thing, to recognize any principle of design on paper as applicable to the tasteful results we would like to produce. There evidently is a want of knowledge of the manner in which positive results are attain- able in the various departments of art. "We are too apt to sup- pose that there is but the one step from conception to execu- tion ; that the brain originates and perfects an idea which the same skillful hand at once executes, while in reality we overlook the intermediate links, which, step by step, lead on from the first original thought to the perfect result — a result as finished and thorough in model or plan as in the final execution. Effects, position, color, form, etc., are all studied in advance, individually and collectively, the details arranged, and the im- practicabilities discarded. Perhaps there is no department of art that requires the aid of those principles that facilitate the comprehension and execution of work as that of landscape gardening, nor is there any art to which a system of working drawings is more applicable. As a matter of economy and taste, it is more satisfactory to experi- ment with a pencil than with real objects ; it is better to work out your plan on paper, and then execute with a thorough un- AND EUEAL AET. 131 derstanding of the result. In no other manner can excellence be reached; we must know effects, beauties, etc., in advance; and improvements of overy class can just as well be studied in the abstract, and the plans for their execution be as thoroughly- perfected for any form of landscape adornment, as they can be for any form that is cut from marble or delineated on canvas. There is an intelligent mode of conveying imj)ressions from the mind that originates to the hand that constructs ; and this medium between the artist and the mechanic or laboring man is a well-studied plan, free from all mechanical impractical^il- ities, and so plain as not to admit of a misunderstanding. The successful pursuit of Landscape Gardening, like all other liberal arts, dei^ends upon a thorough understanding of results, and no work of excellence can bo perfected without a close and careful study, in advance, of all its details and effects. The assistance derived from the compilation of a design on paper is of great value, for the reason that one is enabled to secure sug- gestive beauties, harmonize them, and reject features that are not desirable, as well as to investigate the practicability or im- practicability of the mechanical work necessary. How often do we hear stated. If I were to do this thing again, it should be managed in another way ; that difficulty did not present itself until the work was nearly done, and it was too late to remedy it ! It did not occur to us that we might have so located that road, the barn, the garden ; in fact, made everything far more beautiful, infinitely more convenient, and for about one half of the expense. We see our mistake now, but the deed is done. "What might have been studied out on paper, where all blunders could easily have been remedied, has been actually executed in real materials and at a heavy cost. Intelligent proprietors who seek fine effects with the least expenditure can readily understand the advantage of studying plans, for it is a. well-known fact, that the arts of design, in 132 WOODWAKD's AECHITECTirKE. some of their varied applications, afford the power of expressing on paper every stage of progress in the execution of any work of art, and that the whole process of arrangement, its utility, convenience, and harmony, can be traced step by step through all its combinations. It Is quite necessary to adopt some system in carrying forward improvements, so that they shall occupy those places in which they will be of the most value, and that they be constructed in the most advantageous manner. To know what one wants when improvements are undertaken, is to know a great deal ; to communicate those wants to others, requires that one should first understand them thoroughly ; to understand them thor- oughly, it is necessary to study their various developments, from the first conception to the practical working reality, and to do this successfully and economically there is no such medium as a plan. The two most prominent professional authors of England on this subject, Repton and Loudon, placed the utmost importance on the value of plans, and their great successes were mainly attributable to them. Repton made drawings of everything he devised, and Loudon's published works are profuse in illustra- tions ; his isometncal perspective drawings are evidence of the extent to which he carried, and the value which he placed on, this important accessory to a profession of which he was an acknowledged leader. S5XJi3Xj:E^:B.^isr HOMES FOR NEW TOEKERS! WHERE TO FIND AND HOW TO BUILD THEM. By GEO. E. WOODWARD, Architect, 191 Broadway, N. T. AUTHOR OF " WOODWARD'S COUNTRY HOMES." A LAEGE proportion of the business men of New York live in ignorance of the fact, that they can travel by steam into the suburbs more luxuriantly, promptly and in less lime than required to go to the upper parts of the City. That in a few years time they can become the owners of a home out of the savings from house rent in New York, above interest on cost of a house and lot in the suburbs. That they can have all the luxuries and enjoyments of the city, inclusive of churches, lectures and amusements. That they can reach their business early, leave late, and enjoy a promptness and an accom- modation in stormy weather, unknown to up town resi- dents, and that the cost of transportation within an hours' ride by steam does not differ from ordinary omnibus fare. The history of the large fortunes in the City of New York are to be found mostly in real estate investments, and so long as our counti-y prospers, the City of New HOMES FOE NEW Y0EKBE8. BtrTHEEFUKD PAEK STATION, 10 MILES FKOM NEW YORK. Erie Eailway, Broad Gange, DonWe Track. York will continue to grow in wealth, magnificence and extent. Already the populatinn within its civil bounda- ries has been exceeded in numbers by its immediate suburbs, and its future growth will be mostly found in its outlying cities and villages. The princely results of investments made fifteen years ago in up-town lots will be repeated along the lines of steam suburban roads. New York, as a metropolis, with immediate suburbs, contains to-day a population of 2,500,000, around which, as statistics conclusively prove, 125,000 persons (five per ct. increase per annum) HOMES FOE NEW YOEKEES. 3 annually make their permanent liomes, this percentage of annual increase does not fluctuate ; for eighty years it lias gone on with undeviating regularity, and will re- quire vast areas for its future expansion. Whatever argu- ment inay bo urged in favor of real estate investments' anywhere, has tenfold force in its application to the im mediiite suburbs of New York. Every iron rail that is liiid points towards this great city. The development of the whole continent will have its influence; no place can prosper that will not add to prosperity here. The onward strides of this metropolis cannot be checked ; around this focal point, business, wealth and splendor will gather, and the closing century will see ISTew York the metropolis of the world. We design at this time to call attention more particu- larly to the locality known as Ruthebfurd Park, which, after fifteen years of professional experience in building np and beautifying the suburbs of New York, we se- lected nearly eight years ago as a place of residence, possessing the most desirable advantages in healthfulness, beautiful scenery, fine drives, and prompt and reliable accessibility, facts which have since forced themselves more prominently forward as years and experience have increased ; and since we located there, almost alone, prop- erty around us has been purchased, improved, and made the permanent homes of wealthy New Yorkers, business men, who are bringing up their families in this cleoant suburb because they ])refer it for its healthfuliie.-s, beauty and superior accessibility. The first consideration that presents itself to a businessi 1 HOMES FOE NEW YOEKEE8. man who decides to reside in the suburbs of New York, is the mode of communication between his home and his business ; this must be frequent, prompt and reliable, and is attainable, in its most perfect form, only on double track roads of extensive business and resources, roads that have both the power and the will to move their business promptly, and cannot afford detentions. Those who make Residence of Wm. Ogden, Esq., Park Ayenne, Eutlierfard Park. their first essays in suburban life, do not comprehend fully the wide difference in avenues of travel. Men of leisure may locate on single track roads and branch lines, with side switches and a half a dozen poor en- gines, and patiently wait the delay of a down freight train, and an occasional blockade of the road for a day, but the man of active business should look for the double HOMES FOE NEW YOEKEES. 5 track route ; he will go on roads that numher their engines by the hundred, and whose business is such as to require all the latest improvements in luxurious travel. Such communication is the key to suburban enjoyment, it gives the advantage of all city pleasures and conveniences, and ought not to be overlooked or disregarded by those seek- ing the best localities. The choice of depots to one who rides every day should be that, all other things considered, which can be reached in not over forty minutes. Add to this the time from house to depot, and from ferry to place of business, and an hour is pretty well used up ; an hour night and morning is about the limit of time that most men can afford from the dining room to the counting house — and within this limit of time is Rutherfurd Park, beyond all question the most beautiful, accessible and healthy suburb of New York. It is reached from the nucleus of business by steam, without intervening delays by horse-cars or omni- buses. RuTHEEFTjED Pakk is the first station on the Erie Railway, ten miles from New York; every train that runs to this point is an express train. Arrivals and departures are prompt per time-table. The commutation is $60 per annum. The fare one way is 30 cents, and ex- cursion tickets out and back, good for two days, 40 cents ; this includes the ferry, the boats on which are of the largest and finest class, and unexceptionable in their ap- pointments and management. The land about the Station lies on an elevated rolling ridge, handsomely wooded and watered, the highest por- 6 HOMES FOE NEW TOEKEES. tions of whicli are some fifty feet above the Central Park, and 100 feet above tide water; the subsoil is gravel drainage natural, topsoil a sandy loam free from clay or red mud, roads are in splendid condition more than eleven months in the year, gardens productive and easily worked, and the general lay of land is such, that the best land- scape improvements can be made at small expense. The entire locality is under such control that no nuisance can get a foothold. Residence of Geo. B. Woodtvabd, Union Avenue, Entherftird Park. The Passaic River, which bounds the Rutherfurd Park property, is navigable for schooners of from two to three hundred tons, and heavy supplies, as coal, lumber, ma- nure, etc., can be landed in the immediate vicinity ; for smaller supplies, butchers, grocers, bakers, ice-men, milk- men, etc., call at the door. At the present time. Fall of 1870, there are com- pleted and in use, three churches, Episcdpal, Presbyterian HOMES FOE NEW TOEKEES. 7 and Baptist, and regular services are held by the Meth- odists. The Rutherfurd Park School is in succossful op- eration under most thorough and skillful instructors. An entirely new edifice has been erected for a public school, and is maintained in the best mannei'. Good stores, mar- kets and other conveniences are in operation, and evei-j needed facility will be provided. The opening of the Delaware, Lackawanna and "West- ern Railroad affords a new and independent line of com- munication with the City of New York, establishes a healthy competition with the Erie Railway, and promotes ambition in frequent and prompt trains, luxurious cars, low rates of fare and all the accessions of superior com- munication. The property owned by the Rutherfurd Heights Asso- ciation at Rutherfurd Park, New Jersey, occupies the most elevated site, and commands extensive views of the Passaic River and valley, the Orange mountains, and the Palisades. It is bounded on the west by the Passaic river. At an average distance of three quarters of a mile on the East is the Rutherfurd Park Station on the Erie Railway, with a plank walk from the centre of the pro- perty. The station of " Santiago," next west from Ru- therfurd Park, on the Erie railway, is half a mile dis- tant. On the south, three-fourths of a mile distant, is the depot on the Delaware and Lackawanna; Eailroad. These two main business lines of railway, with their immense resources in equipment, double tracks, etc., afford profuse facilities in communication at all hours with New York. S HOMES FOE NEW T0EKEE8. The Rutherfurd Heights Association owning 130 acres of land, occupying the most elevated and central position, have laid the same out into 500 building plots, of an aver- age size of 50 by 160 feet, or a little more than three city lots. Their avenues have been graded with great care, and are the most superior class. Since the property was opened, upwards of $200,000 has been expended on and Residence of L. E. Korff, Esq, Union Avenue. in the immediate vicinity, in the erection of dwellings, churches, etc. The entire improvements have been made by New York business men, who have built their own homes, reside permanently, and make their own society, which is of the best class, of abundant means and a wil- lingness to progress in all improvements. HOMES FOE NEW TOEKEES. 9 To those in search of a home convenient to the city, that will continue to rise in value, that possesses superior facilities in getting to and fro, utterly free from local an- noyances, and in point of health ranks with the best, and superior to most all other suburbs of New York, we would call attention to the elevated plateau at Rutherfurd Kesidence of Geo. Datton, Esq., Eiverside Avenue, Eutherftird Park. Park, lying between the Erie Railroad and the Delaware and Lackawanna Railroad, forty minutes from Broadway, accessible early and late, and at all intervening hours. Facts relating to the city of New York, show conclu- sively that men of moderate incomes cannot hope to live 10 HOMES FOE NEW TOEKEES. in their own houses, or even to rent a whole house. The law of supply and demand fixes the price of rents as well as the price of real estate. So long as N"ew York grows in population there will not be cheaper rents until more houses are built than are required for use, which has not been the case for many years, and the price an inaccessibility of real estate in upper New York is such, that it will not pay to build houses for the average man of business. He must go outside the civil boundaries of the city, he must go where he can buy finer building sites for one-fiftieth of the price, and that he can reach, in the most luxuriant manner, in half the time ; where he can build, own and occupy his own home, enjoy all the advan tages of being his own landlord, and reap the benefits of the rise in values, which increase with positive certainty as progress is made. For $6,000, less than one half the average price of a New York city lot, one can become the owner of a lot three limes the size, with a handsome cottage and seven good rooms, and can have as many more rooms in his house as he may want at an additicnal cost of say |500 per room. PRACTICAL STANDARD PUBLICATIONS OF GEO. E. WOODWARD. Harney's Barns, Outbuildings and Fences. Just published and containing Designs and Plans of Stables, Farm Barns, Outbuildings, Gates, Gateways, Fences, Stabl Fittings and Furniture, fully described with nearly 200 Illus trationa. Royal quarto extra. Post-paid, Ten DoLLAafS. Woodward's National Architect. l.OOO Designs, Plans and Details, for Country, Suburban and Village Houses, with Perspective Views, front and side elevations^ sections, foU detail drawings, specifications, and estimates. Also, detail drawings to working scale, of Brackets. 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