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 136
VKIMMlAI. ri.O Fiii. 27 ini DESTfiNS FOR COTTAOES. 105 belongs to a villa, it will be seen that the form here shown (ofwhich Fig. 29 is a portion, to a scale of ^ inch to a foot) is so … [Fig. 29. Verge-Board.] simple as to be easily executed without fear of its falling into thegingerbread character. It should be made of two-inch plank. The light, open porch of this cottage may be omittedwithout injming the design, but it gives the front an air of somuch feeling and refinement,…
Architecture, Domestic
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