Victorian House Plans by a Woman

Mrs. Howard's Farmhouse Design: Beauty and Utility Combine

1847 Farmhouse Designed by Matilda W. Howard

Image 1 of 3, from the Transactions of the New-York State Agricultural Society, Vol. VII, 1847

In Mrs. Howard's design, the kitchen opens to a passageway leading to a dairy room, an ice house and a woodhouse. The arrangement of the rooms - and the provision for a well-ventilated dairy - were designed to "combine utility and beauty, as far as practicable with the labor-saving principle," Mrs. Howard wrote.

Could Frank Lloyd Wright say as much?

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Introduction: Forgotten Women Designers >

• Mrs. Howard's Farmhouse Design: Beauty and Utility Combine
• Mrs. Howard's Farmhouse Design: The Second Floor
• Mrs. Howard's Farmhouse Design: The Cellar
• Mrs. Howard's Farmhouse Design: The Dairy