Cottage residences; or, A series of designs for rural cottages and cottage villas, and their gardens and grounds (1873)
Downing, A. J. (Andrew Jackson), 1815-1852, Sargent, Henry Winthrop, 1810-1882, Downing, Charles, Harney, George E · New York : J. Wiley & son · leaf 160
able climate will soon destroy so frail amaterial, and it is therefore unfit for coveiing the roofs ofliuildings for habitation. Our best shingles, however,afford an excellent material for coveiiug roofs, and if thoseof good size and thickness are chosen, and shaped as wehave directed in a former… … Fig. 58. 1)6 extended boldly, say two to three feet, to give forceand expression to the exterioi, and to protect the wallsfully. The ends of the rafters arc projected, so as to ap-jjear as visible supports at the eaves. A verge-boaId isshown on a lars-ei- scale in Fio-. .58. This would be…
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