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Title: The Brochure Series of Architectural Illustration, Vol. 1, No. 10, October 1895.
French Farmhouses.

Author: Various

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[Illustration: LXXIII. Ferme de Turpe, Normandy.]

THE BROCHURE SERIES

OF ARCHITECTURAL ILLUSTRATION.

VOL. I.

OCTOBER, 1895.

No. 10

FRENCH FARMHOUSES.

As it is the purpose of THE BROCHURE SERIES to cover as wide a field
as possible in choice of subject matter for its illustrations, and at
the same time hold rigidly to the idea of furnishing only what will
be useful to its subscribers, it has seemed desirable to present
something a little nearer our everyday life than the Italian work
which has thus far formed the greater part of the plate matter.

The domestic architecture of France and England has naturally served
as a model for a great deal of our American work, and especially is
this noticeable during the present generation in the close relation
between the French chateaux and the more pretentious American
residences, as witness the recent productions of the late Mr. Hunt,
which have just been published since his death. We are, to be
sure, looking in all directions for suggestions, and it cannot help
appearing wonderful to a thoughtful observer how many and varied these
suggestions are.

Our wealthy citizens are building chateaux in the style of Francis
I or of somebody else, Venetian or Florentine palaces, Roman
villas, Flemish guild-halls, Elizabethan half-timber houses. All,
if tastefully and skilfully designed and placed, have their special
points of beauty and excellence, and all may in the hands of an
architect of ability be made to harmonize with our modern ways of
living and the surroundings in which they must take a part.

None of these models, however, are more adaptable to our ways than