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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 564

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r-top architectural, by placing it in an open cupola,corresponding to the style of the house. In this way, thecupola (of any moderate size, so as not to have the pretentious^A,. look of the cupola of a public building) may be made as significant and characteristic an orna- mcnt of a dwelling-house… … [Fig. 320.] ance of such a ventilator inclosed in a cupola, in the classicalstyle, and Fig. 320, in the Gothic style. The effect of sucha featm-e upon the roof of a house may be seen by turningback to Design XXX., page 329. In many cases, a lantern-cupola of this kmd, may be introduced in sucha…

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