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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 160

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hes), Avhich serve both for use and orna- Chukch and School-Hous] 157 ment, as may be seen by examining the plan and elevations.The inside of the -walls is furred off as usual. The front part,under the liall and clothes-closets, is intended to be dug out fora coal and furnace cellar. A portable… … Side Elevation. terminating in a box on the roof, are indicated in the rearwall. The inside walls are to have two coats of plaster, andbe wainscoted up to the windows all around. The roof maybe covered with slate or shingles, as most convenient. Thobell cupola, very appropriately a prominent…

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