The American cottage builder: a series of designs, plans, and specifications, from $200 to $20,000. For homes for the people. Together with warming, ventilation, drainage, painting, and landscape gardening (1854)
Bullock, John · New York, Stringer & Townsend · leaf 108
lling-room. A pit is dug for the body ofthe fire-chamber and draught-hole; and the top, or head ofthe stove, is used for the different operations of cooking. That no portion of heat may be lost, or escape into theroom directly from the fire, beyond what is necessary tomaintain a given temperature,… … ^W**~ • Till: AMERICAN COTTAGE BUILDER. 97 to preserve the atmosphere of the room in a healthy con-on as to moisture. The Ci:: all a stove which is heated by a furnace,a hang; the ti-kang is a furnace of which the flue runs underthe floor or pavement of a room; and the Jcao-hang is thatused for…
Architecture, Domestic
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