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 339
nvenience. As a marked defect in this design was the absence of allveranda, arcade, or covered walk—without which no countryhouse is tolerable in the United States—we have added averanda in the angle between the library and drawing-room.This will be seen in the elevation of that end of the house,… … [Fig. 116. Elevation of the End.] Accommodation. The accommodation of this villa is bothhandsome and convenient. A fine efiect will be produced, onentering the hall, by the vista through to the bow-window atthe end of the drawing-room, especially if the latter be filledwith stained glass of mellow…
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