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 36
, forstrength. Stairs thus formedwould be fire-proof, and wouldhave a neat appearance. The Roofs of cottages may be formed of a great varietyof materials, and a number of modes of construction havebeen invented. For the humbler kind of dwellings, thatch, though fallinginto disuse, seems admirably… … Section of stairs formed of tile. f i Elevation. 30 THE AMERICAN COTTAGE BUILDER. by soaking it in a mixture of alum water and size. It is usu-allv made of combed wheat straw, called reed, consisting ofthe stiff, unbruised and unbroken stalks which have been care-fully separated from the fodder…
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