Repository: UIHistories Project: Board of Trustees Minutes - 1871 [PAGE 28]

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20 sheds, and will be fitted up for practical instruction in the care and treatment of sick animals during the winter clinic. The University has three barns belonging to the stock and experimental farms and gardens, and three dwelling houses for the superintendents. We present here the plans and a perspective view of the farm house recently built on the Experimental Farm of the Industrial University. This house is designed to afford a fair model for a farmer's house. It is tasteful in appearance, economical in cost, and compact and convenient in arrangement. We offer it as another contribution to rural architecture.

Downing recognized the truth that a house should be in keeping with the scenery by which it is surrounded. One would build a very different style of house among the rugged hills of New England from that which would be appropriate on the prairies of Illinois. The house here shown is not so marked in style as to demand surroundings of any extreme type. If well set off by clumps of conical evergreens, or of tall and branching elms, it will look well on the prairie. The dimensions of the several rooms are given in the plans. A cellar under the whole, walled with hard brick and having a cement floor, affords a laundry, a large cistern and an ample cellar, in two compartments, one of which may be given to dairy uses and the other to vegetables The front door is sheltered by a pleasant verandah, and the front hall or entry affords direct admission to office, parlor and kitchen. The u office," a small room which the intelligent farmer will find abundantly useful for his business affairs, will also serve as a library and