Building construction and superintendence, by F.E. Kidder ... (1896)
Kidder, Frank E. (Frank Eugene), 1859-1905 · New York, W.T. Comstock · leaf 87
Fig. 49. 91. Entrance Areas.—All area steps, when practicable, should beof stone, or of stone and brick combined.* When the soil is hard andcompact and not subject to heaving by frost, a small set of steps maybe economically built by shaping the earth to the rake of the steps andbuilding the steps… … Fig. 50. in Fig. 49. All parts of the steps should be set in cement, and wellpointed, and the ends of the treads should be built into the side walls.If the area is 6 feet or more in depth, or if the soil is sandy or awet clay, then the area must be excavated beneath the steps andentirely surrounded…
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