A dictionary of architecture and building; biographical, historical and descriptive (1901)
Sturgis, Russell, 1836-1909 · New York, Macmillan · leaf 525
h or prevention of sound. Byextension, having the whole structure of a ceil-ing put in, as beneath the roof of a cottage,leaving a garret abnve, UNDERPINNING. ,1. Tlie rough wallsor piers sup]i(iiting the first floor timbers of abuilding witlimit a cellar. The upper part of afoundation wall… … TYMPANUM OF DOOR: CHURCH OF S. JEAN-BAPTISTE DE BELLEVILLE, PARIS. 893 894 UNDERTHROATING ill whole or in peat, an old or iiitirm foundationwall with a new wall, or in extending with newmaterial a wall already built to a lower and morestable bottom. The terms also applied to labourand material…
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