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 113
fdining-room also) as a show apartment, or best room. Such aplan might suit the fancy of those who take pleasure in keepingthe best and most comfortable room in their house shut, exceptwhen they see strangers, but we cannot recommend it as conso-nant with good taste, and that unaffected, genuine… … as it is extremely simple. In Fig. 34, the verge-board and cornice are shown more indetail, to the scale of \ inchto a foot. In this, a is thefront view of the top of thegable, and b, the profile orsection of the same, p, isthe pendant which perfo-rates the ridge of the roof,and terminates the…
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