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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 144

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here is a small larder, and acloset in the kitchen. Tlie second-story ])lan. Fig. 35, is so simple, that it requireslittle explanation. It should be remarked, however, that thekitchen wing is not so high, in either the fij^t or second floor, DESIGNS FOR COTTAGES. Ill by two feet,* as that of the… … [Fig. 35. Second Floor.] Construction. This cottage should be built of brick andstucco, with sixteen-inch hollow walls, or with smooth brick,painted of some pleasing neutral tint. The window dressings,where diessed stone is scarce or costly, should be built of brickand stuccoed—except the lintels…

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