“Bird’s-eye view of a new home in the country, with formal and vegetable gardens, carriage house, windmill, and farm animals,” ca. 1904, by H.M. Smyth Printing Company (Saint Paul, Minnesota), via Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division.
Early 20th century farmhouse chic, only $$2,500.

I’m wondering about the white shapes in rows to the right of the house. What are they? Beehives?
I think they’re pig houses.. I’ve seen similar ones in Ohio.
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That could be, although they are rather neat and tidy — and close to the house, not where I would want them.
Maybe they are tiny haystacks? Although they are dwarfed by the geese along the front drive. Distributed rather too regularly to be sheep. Hmm.
I was thinking maybe the ideal country estate came complete with the ideal family cemetery gravestones.