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 194
11 1..II DESIGNS hOli FAKM-IIOUSES. 151 and while it forms au agreeable whole, it has nothing in it-;construction or details wliicli an American farmer wouldreject, from want of fitness or local truth. … Though a farm-house in this simple and unpretending manner 152 COUNTRY IIorSES. may l»c jtlacod with ]iropriety in almost any rural landscape,yet tlic cili-et <»f tliis ntyle is always most satisfactory in ratherwild, liilly, or mountainous countries. Backed against a hill orat the side of a…
Architecture, Domestic
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