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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 394

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 394 — in Fig. 154. Allthese verge-boards should becarved out of soniid 2^- or 3inch pine plank, so as to have areal and solid aj)pearance, very• lillerent from the thin-boardimitations of them frequentlyseen in flimsy ornamental cot-tages. The roof should project DESIGNS FOR Vn.LAS OR COUNTRY HOUSES. 329… … 06X><3 w [Fig. 155. Chimney-Tops.] Garnkirk fire-clay, of the patterns shown in Fig. 155, may behad of Jas. Lee & Co., New York or Boston. Estimate. Built in brick, or brick and cement, in a sub-stantial manner, with labels of cut stone, this villa wouldcost about $7,500. The cost of the…

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