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The architecture of country houses : including designs for cottages, farm houses, and villas, with remarks on interiors, furniture, and the best modes of warming and ventilating (1851)

Downing, A. J. (Andrew Jackson), 1815-1852, Anderson, Alexander, 1775-1870 · New York : D. Appleton & Company, 200 Broadway ; Philadelphia : Geo S. Appleton, 164 Chestnut-Street · leaf 101

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nes on a inu-al cottage always expressdomesticity and the j)resence of heart. If any one wishes to know the effect, in a simple cottage, ofa little feeling of this kind added to that simplest kind ofarchitecture which rises but little above common sense, he has 80 COUNTRY UOU8E8. only to… … ^^^^mM^ [Fig. 11.] In tlie view before us, the architecture is the same, but theend window is stripped of tlie l)racket overhung with clusteringvines, and tlie cottage wants the softening and humanizingexpression which these accessories give to Fig. 9. A hay-wmdow^ such as that seen in the…

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