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 17
d. 1. Adaptation to Use.—In erecting a building of any kind,the first thing to be considered, and the last to be lost sight of^is the iise to which it is to be appropriated. Adaptation to thisuse must not be sacrificed to anything else. The plan and con-struction of a dwelling-house, for instance,… … j^teUji^jLi^r^ ■ H0USE-I5U1LDING. 15 house should be unlike the cottage of the mechanic. And thelaw of fitness applies to all the details of a house as well as toits general form. It should be our guide in the arrangementof rooms; in the disposition of doors, windows, stairs, andchimneys; and in…
Country homes · Architecture, Domestic
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