Its neighbours, in the rose-covered outhouses, are an architect and a blacksmith.
Nixon had little interest in home affairs: he was content to sub-contract what he called "building outhouses in Peoria" to bright liberals such as Patrick Moynihan.
Passengers had a whip-round and raised £40 for them, which was just as well because when they got back to Southampton they found their landlord had rented their home to another family, and dumped their furniture in neighbours' outhouses.
Think of the acute anxieties that stalked the news floors of the media at the turn of the second millennium, for example, when many shrill, not-so-much-in-the-know commentators predicted the wholesale collapse of the world's computers systems, and tinned food was stock-piled in the outhouses of ageing hippies in upstate New York.
While many are known or feared to have been destroyed as towns and cities are redeveloped, experts believe others may be simply lying unforgotten and unrecognised in outhouses or storage sheds.
This may sound much less emphatic than his famous pledge — after the apartment bombings, in 1999, which led to the second Chechen war — to knock out the terrorists in outhouses, but the message is the same.
Plastic outhouses were removed because people were using them for sex and drugs and deals, and now there are several self-cleaning, European-style public toilets whose doors automatically open after an interval.
Those who can afford to do so dig cesspools under outhouses.
There were four apartments on each floor, and the building didn't provide its tenants with heat, a lighting source, or running water — just a pump in the back yard and four outhouses.
It might take a moment to shift gears after the walk — past a concrete expanse of McCarren Park, rife with weed (both kinds), dumpsters, and a row of outhouses — to the King & Grove hotel, in whose basement Paul Liebrandt's new enterprise, the Elm, has taken up residence.
Tra happily feed on human waste and were originally kept in Southeast Asia to dispose of the contents of outhouses.
