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��ceiling-beams but only with a ten-inch high base and a chair rail.

The kitchen and pantry are done in natural-finished yellow pine and the pan- try is equipped with cupboards on two sides and a counter across the end. These cupboards are provided with sash doors, drawers, tilting flour-bin, cutting-boards, tin closets, etc., which are very essential to the workings of the culinary depart- ment. The only connection between the kitchen and the dining-room is through the pantry, so that there is a double door between the kitchen odors and the dining table. The rear stairs go up to the landing between the first and second floors, where they join the main stairs to the second floor.

All floors throughout the first floor with the exception of the vestibule, kitchen and pantry and rear entrance hall, are of ^^-in. "select" oak. The kitchen and pantry floors are of 3^-in. yelloAV pine and the vestibule floor is of tile. All the wood floors are stained a medium dark oak and then shellaced and varnished.

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On the second floor we find a hall, four bedrooms, bathroom and a rear veranda. The bathroom is finished in white enamel with a tile floor and hard plaster wainscot marked off to imitate tile. This wainscot is also white enameled. There is a small linen closet opening off the bathroom and a medicine case built in the partition over the lavatory. The balance of the wood- work on the second floor is white enameled on white wood with the exception of the doors which are of unselected birch, stained mahogany. All the upstairs floors are of "select" oak ^-in. thick and finished with a light stain, shellac and varnish. All closets are provided with shelves and hook strips and the mantel is provided with a built-up pine shelf as is the one in the living room. The attic stairs lead up over the rear stairs and are off the main hall. The rear porch is covered with canvas and is accessible from either of the rear bedrooms.

As will be noted from the picture, the exterior of the house is sided half way up and shingled the upper half.

��The siding is painted a light lead color while the shingles are a deep brown, the trim being white. The ceiling of the veranda as well as the plancier of the main and dormer cornices is plastered with stucco on wood lath and makes a very pleasing effect. The appearance of the house is also greatly improved by the small lights in the upper sash of the

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windows and the dormer windows, which are broken out of the roof on the front and two sides. The chimney extends up the outside of the house all the way and, while it adds to the cost of the building to run up an exposed chimney of this size, it also adds greatly to the looks. The shingles on the upper part of the building are laid in alternate courses of six inches and two inches, while the siding is laid three inches to the weather.

This makes up a house that is fit for anyone to live in and at a price within the reach of almost anyone in this day

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