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 150
ean and convenient smoke-room. It.may be ventilated either through the gable or the roof. A side-hill situation is by no means essential in this mode ofconstruction. Both stories may be above ground, the .smoke-house door being reached by outside stairs or a step-ladder. I.AKNS, Etc. 147 XI.—AN… … A ClROULAK ICE-IIOUSE—1kRSPECTIVE ViS^. neat. The second important point is to secure perfect drainage. These conditions attained, the rest is comparatively un-important. A common and entire.y effective mode of constructing anice-house is thus described : The frame or sides sliould be formed of two…
Country homes · Architecture, Domestic
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