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 172
the rest as it is, would give more elegance,but perhaps less convenience, for the majority of those whowould build this design. Let us modify the design a little farther, and besides throwingthese two parlors into one, by sliding doors, let us suppose theveranda carried aU round the house, and the… … 134 COUNTRY HOUSES. labor. It becomes, in fact, a small villa—exceeding, as it does,the limits we have defined for a cottage. Estimate. To execute this design according to the plans inFigs. 53, 54, 55, of brick and stucco, with a cellar under thewhole, would cost about $1300. WHAT A FARM-HOUSE…
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