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 18
ure from disturbinganimals. It builds in thefork of a tree, or thebeams of a bam, so asto be unlikely to bemoved by the winds ; itseeks protection from tl •storms under the over-hanging leaves, the roofof the barn, or perhapsthe thatch on the hay-stack ; and thus it is that the bird shows its… … 12 THE AMERICAN COTTAGE BUILDER. We do not understand the object of Architecture to beto tell the bird that he should no longer be a bird living intrees, or to say to the monks on Mont Blanc, your loca-tion is bad, cold, dreary and uuinviting. Neither is it herprovince to say to the rustic, thou…
Architecture, Domestic
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