This floorplan is taken from Abbott's "Rodolphus," _Harper's Magazine_,
Vol. 4, 1851, page 444.
[Illustration: Figure 27. Floor Plan]
BED ROOM
BACK ROOM
BACK ENTRY
FRONT ROOM
Fire places
KITCHEN
PLATFORM
ENTRY
PORCH
PLATE I
Colonial Kitchen in the Newark Museum
The room in which the kitchen was built at the Newark Museum is about
31' x 75'. One carpenter, with very little assistance, constructed the
kitchen in a few days. A house-painter painted it in about two days. Its
total cost, ready for furniture, was not over one hundred and
seventy-five dollars.
PLATE II
Colonial Fireside
A picture of the fireplace at one end of an old time kitchen which was
set up in the Newark Library, 1916. Notes on its construction are given
on pp. 49-51.
PLATE III
Domestic Industry
How the colonial kitchen was used as sewing room and nursery. The end of
the kitchen through whose window is seen the landscape painted on
screens and the barberry bush standing in a pot on the floor.
PLATE IV
Tea Time
An old-time dining-table set with old-time china and pewter and lighted
with candles. The end of the kitchen shows the corner cupboard, shelves
for dishes and hooks for tippets and mittens.