The country house; a practical manual of the planning and construction of the American country home and its surroundings (1905)
Hooper, Charles Edward, 1867- · New York : Doubleday, Page & company · leaf 98
chbe near the corner or end of thewall, or be of such form, or beloaded so as to exert a consider-able thrust or spreading pressureupon the two piers from which itsprings, a tie iron should be builtinto the wall and securely anchoredin either pier, to counteract suchpressure. If the arch be fairly… … 74 The Country House low, it can be inserted above the arch. The spring of the arch is its point ofbeginning on the piers. Stone sills are either lug or slip sills. The former is built into the wallat either end, the built-in portions being called the lugs. The slip sill, having no
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