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 : Wiley and Putnam · leaf 111
lling, partly on account ofthe large lofts or garrets, so useful to the farmer, afforded bythe steep gables and roofs, and partly on account of its intrinsicbeauty and picturesque effect when built of stone even in thissimple manner. We have introduced a veranda in the samestyle in front, because… … COTTAGE RESIDENCES. 85 should be evinced in the construction. It is not necessary, toattain this, that ornamental verge-boards, or windows, or otherminor details, should be introduced in barns or the like struc-tures, but it will be sufficient if attention is paid to repeatingthe same general forms…
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