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 360
to dress up and inake Gothic wliat would other-wise appear a very plain house. The building is slightly modified from one erected by thewriter at Brunswick, in Maine, at a cost not exceeding $2800.The size and arrangement of the rooms, the spacious hall,and the picturesque exterior, point it out as… … [Fig. 131. Principal Floor.] The construction itself, though simple, is somewhat peculiar.It is fraTned, but in such a manner as that on the exterior theconstmction shows, and gives additional richness and characterto the composition. At the corners are heavy posts, roughly dressed and champ- 302…
Architecture, Domestic
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