The house, a manual of rural architecture, or, How to build country houses and out-buildings : embracing the origin and meaning of the house ; the art of house-building, including planning, style and construction ; desings and descriptions of cottages farm-houses, villas and out-buildings, of various cost and in the different styles of architecture, etc., etc. ; and an appendix containing recipes for paints and washes, stucco, rough-cast, etc. ; and instructions for roofing, building with rough stone, unburnt brick, balloon frames, and the concrete or gravel wall ; with numerous original plans (1866)
Jacques, D. H. (Daniel Harrison), 1825-1877 · New York : The American News Company, 39 and 41 Chambers Street · leaf 113
o theattic, and lighted from above; besides, there is sufficient lightfor the second-story hall and passage, from a window at theend of the latter. In the first design (fip. 81) the walls and all the dressings,except the window sills, are of faced-brick painted, with whitemortar or dark stone… … Fkont Elevation—No. 1. story, and lOi feet for the second story. Those of kitchenwing are 9j feet and 9 feet respectively. Executed in a liberal
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