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 408
DESIGNS FOR VILLAS OR COUNTRY HOUSES. 339 the central part of the building is carried, gives boldness andpicturesqueness to the design, which would appear more fullyin a perspective view than in an elevation. The exterior is strongly marked in style, and is thereforelikely to please those who value… … [Rg. 161. Principal Floor.] efiect. Thus, the cornice is decorated with battlements (imper-fectly shown in the engraving), the small gables with crockets,and the parapet of the veranda with the Tudor-flower.In this veranda, and in the arrangement of the principal 340 OOCNTRY HOUSES. floor, the…
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