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 134
smoke when a fire was kindled below, and that thesmoke came through the cracks and crevices of the wain-scoat. I had the wainscoat taken down, and discoveredthat the funnel which went up behind it, had a crack manyfeet in length, and wide enough to admit my arm; a breachvery dangerous with regard… … THE AMERICAN COTTAGE BUILDER. 121 filling up the breach, or rather rebuilding the funnel ; butthe landlord rather chose to slop up the chimney. The second ease occurred at the house of a friend nearLondon. His best room had a chimney, in which lie toldme he never could have a lire, for all the…
Architecture, Domestic
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