Cyclopedia of architecture, carpentry, and building; a general reference work .. (1912)
American School (Lansing, Ill.) · Chicago, American school of correspondence · leaf 161
mall suburbanor country houses. Mansard Roof. The mansard roof, called by the name of thearchitect who introduced it, is like the gable roof except that itslopes very steeply from each wall toward the center, instead of 124 CARPENTRY 113 from two opposite walls only, and it has a nearly flat deck… … Fig. 166. Hip Roof with Ridge employed. The mansard roof is shown in Fig. 165. It bears a closerelation to the so-called hip roof. Hip Roof. The hip roof also slopes from all four walls towardthe center, but not so steeply as does the mansard roof. It isusually brought to a point or a ridge at the…
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