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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 385

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house; Fig. 147 is the chimney-top, with a portion ofthe roof, giving the cornice and heavy stone brackets. DESIGN xxrx.—A Yilla in the Rii/ral Gothic Style. We have designed this villa to express the life of a familyof refined and cultivated taste, full of home feeling, love for thecountry, and… … We leave it to oiir readers to judge how much or how littlewe have succeeded in our attempt. Tliey will first observethat the roof is not so abstractly pointed and aspiring as that in 72 -s

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