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Title: If You're Going to Live in the Country

Author: Thomas H. Ormsbee and Richmond Huntley

Illustrator: Frank Lieberman

Release Date: February 20, 2006 [EBook #17804]

Language: English

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IF YOU'RE GOING
TO LIVE IN
THE COUNTRY

[Illustration: A RIVERSIDE HOME RECONSTRUCTED FROM THE RUINS OF AN OLD
MILL

_Photo by Samuel H. Gottscho_ _Robertson Ward, architect_]

IF YOU'RE GOING
TO LIVE IN
THE COUNTRY

BY THOMAS H. ORMSBEE
AND RICHMOND HUNTLEY

[Illustration]

DECORATIONS BY FRANK LIEBERMAN

[Illustration]

THOMAS Y. CROWELL COMPANY
PUBLISHERS NEW YORK

COPYRIGHT, 1937

BY THOMAS Y. CROWELL COMPANY

All rights reserved. No part of this book may be reproduced in any
form except by a reviewer who may quote brief passages in a review
to be printed in a magazine or newspaper.

MANUFACTURED IN THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA
BY THE VAIL-BALLOU PRESS, INC., BINGHAMTON, N. Y.

To
CARROLL
and
THERESE
NICHOLS

ACKNOWLEDGMENTS

No book that covers so many phases of human relationships could be
compiled without taking advice from those who are specialists. When we
have wanted to know facts, we have freely turned to others whose
detailed knowledge represented long experience. For this assistance we
are particularly indebted to: M. Shaler Allen, Bruce Millar, Mrs.
Herbert Q. Brown, and George S. Platts; also, to _House & Garden_, in
which parts of this book appeared serially; and to Miss Eleanor V.
Searing for many hours spent reading manuscript.

New Canaan, Conn.
April 1937

CONTENTS

PAGE

INTRODUCTION xi

CHAPTER

I. WHY LIVE IN THE COUNTRY 3

II. SELECTING THE LOCATION 19

III. SHOPPING FOR PROPERTY