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 196
the staircase, arespaces which designate hot-air flues, which proceed from thefurnace in the basement, and by means of registers, warm allthe apartments in the house, although the four principal oneshave fire-places besides, for occasional use if necessary. The first flight of stairs ascends half… … Fig. 73. COTTAGE RESIDENCES. 159 Underneath, this balcony forms a kind of partly enclosed apart-ment, serving as a wash-room or outer-kitchen in summer. There is also a balcony over the recessed porch in front,which is a pleasant appendage to the chamber floor. Thisfloor, Fig. 74, affords three…
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