This house is suggested in part by a picture of the Nathan Hale Schoolhouse in Alice Morse Earle’s _Child Life in Colonial Days_, but chiefly by the floor plan in Abbott’s “Rodolphus,” _Harpers Magazine_, Vol. 4., 1851, page 441. FIGURE 27 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′ × 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. END Transcriber’s Notes —Retained publication information from the printed edition: this eBook is public-domain in the country of publication. —Silently corrected a few palpable typos. —In the text versions only, text in italics is delimited by _underscores_. End of Project Gutenberg's A Day in a Colonial Home, by Della R. Prescott