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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 349

An illustration from 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, leaf 349 — ows by Palladio, and tlie best of theearlier Italian architects, are as follows -.—The height of the opening double thatof the width, and the breadth of the architrave or dressing one sixth of the width.Windows on the second floor have the same breadth, but less height. 19 290 COTJNTRY HOUSES.… … [Fig. 123. Italian \Vindow—enriched.] Estimate. Supposing three rooms on the iii-st, and two onthe second floor to have the walls hard finished, and the restto be finished for white-washing or papering, this house maybe built, here, of brick and stucco—the arcade, bay-windows,etc., of wood painted…

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