A dictionary of architecture and building : biographical, historical, and descriptive (1902)
Sturgis, Russell, 1836-1909 · New York : The Macmillan company · leaf 67
framework, usu-ally of timber and scantling. This, in moderntimes, is covered outside by boarding, shingling,sheet metal, and the like, and within by woodsheathing or by plaster. In the MidiUe Agesand in the fifteenth and following centuriestimber hou.ses throughout Europe were elabo-rately framed,… … Frame House. The walls and partitions of studs, with interties to carry floor-beams and for stiff-ness ; roof of simple rafters, but with a curb enclosinjj the opening: for a lantern.This is a German model; and it is shown that an outer shell of brick is intended. the making of a structure of…
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