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 147
Perspective View plank. To guaid against leakage by shrinking, the joints m&ybe battened with lath or strips of thin boards. An eight-squareframe supports the top of the rafters, leaving an opening often inches in diameter, on which is placed an octagon chimneyfor a ventilator, which makes a… … Plan. The letter D designates the door; W, W, windows; L, lat-ticed window to admit air, with a sliutter to exclude it, when necessary ; E, entrance for thefowls, Avith a sliding door; P,platform for the fowls toalight on when going in ; R, R,roosts placed spirally, one endattached to a post near…
Country homes · Architecture, Domestic
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