MODERN PRIVATE BUILDINGS.
Detached Houses: Dresa'en erections intended for private dwellings, the most marked differences occur not only from the influences of climate and nationality, but also from the circumstances and taste of the individual proprietor or tenant. The differences arising from national peculiarities are less strikingly exhibited in the more luxurious and elabo rate style of buildings than in those of a more inexpensive character. As these elegant abodes seem to mark a sort of dividing-line between domes tic architecture and the great edifices prepared for grand memorial or rep resentative public functions, only, a single example will be taken (1.414, _figs. This luxurious private residence, or villa, stands alone, and is intended to be used as the dwelling of one family. The principal rooms— which are intended for reception and domestic purposes—are upon the first story, bed-chambers and spare-rooms are upon the second story, and the kitchen and its appurtenances are in the basement. It must be noted that the villa usually stands at some distance from the street or road, with a garden ground in front to heighten the picturesque effect of the edifice. The chief entrance door is generally in one of the side fronts. The ex ample (/5/. 4, fig. 1)—a villa in the Parkstrasse in Dresden, built by A. Hanschild, architect—exhibits the peculiarities of this style of residence in a handsome and characteristic manner. A wroug-lit-iron railing of artis tic design separates the g-rounds from the street, and the visitor approaches throng-lt a g,ate by a flagstone path leading to the entrance door of the house, before which stands a flight of steps and a lightly built glass-cov ered In the house itself the visitor is received first upon the ground floor, par/erre, or first story (fig. 2), in a small entrance hall or platform (a), and . from this proceeds into an elegant octagonal vestibule (b) lighted from above. A door at the left leads to the reception-room (c), which communi cates with the salon, or parlor (a1), and through this with the ladies' room (f). A passage-way (g) contains a small stairway leading both to the base
ment and to the upper floor; it also makes a connection on the ground floor with the bed-cliamber (f) and gentlemen's room (i), next to which is the small smoking-room (k). The room (m) in the middle at the rear is the dining-room; the one Go) next to it is the pantry, with closet and dumb waiter. A connecting passag-e (o) unites the vestibule with the stairway to the basement. The front of the salon, which is toward the street, opens upon a gallery, or loggia, for pictures. The side-rooms—that is, the recep tion-room (c) and the ladies' room bays, also fronting- the street. At the rear the dining-room (m) opens upon a covered terrace (n). The door at the right in the vestibule leads to the stairway (q), which connects with the basement and with the upper floor.
In the plan of the upper floor (fig. 3), the visitor ascending the stair way arrives at the landing (a), which is lighted from above and has a large glazed opening in the floor, to transmit light to the vestibule on the lower floor. The remaining apartments are—room (b) for guests, billiard-room (c), gallery, or loggia (d), living-rooms (f). The passages and pantries cor respond with those on the floor below; n is a stairway to the attic; 7' and s are balconies over the bays. In the basement, the kitchen lies directly tinder the dining-room and the terrace; next collies the servants' room; at the left in front is the bath-room and at the right in front is the janitor's room; at the left in the middle is a mang-ling-room and under the salon is a cellar. Besides the main building, there are also two side-buildings feet long and 19% feet wide (fig. 1). In the one at the right are the por ter's room, stabling for three horses, coach-honse, and harness-room; in the building at the left are the laundry and the conservatory.