Cottage residences : or, A series of designs for rural cottages and cottage villas, and their gardens and grounds ; adapted to North America (1847)
Downing, A. J. (Andrew Jackson), 1815-1852 · New York ; London : Wiley and Putnam · leaf 117
found connected with most farms in this country, butwe have given it with a view of exhibiting what ought tobe aimed at as a desideratum in accommodation, on everyextensive farm; and it will be found easy to diminish theamount of buildings and sheds to as many as would occupyonly one side of the… … [Fig. 35.] COTTAGE RESIDENCES. 89 the view from the house across the entrance lawn a, wouldbe pleasing, and its expression would be that of simply natu-ral or pastoral beauty. The trees might be of the finestnative species, selected from the woods on the farm, as nothingis more beautiful than our…
Architecture, Domestic
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