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 49
onvenience andcomfort may be secured for the smallest sum of money, and atthe same time to impress upon the readers mind the fact that,because a cottage may be small and cheap, it need not there- ■Ki The House. lore the ugly. Taste need not always necessarily add tu ex-pense, and the expression of… … Pkbbpsctive Yii:u. parts of the West and South. The ])lan requires no explana-tion Space may be saved by building an outside chimney ateach end, instead of the central one represented in the plan. Ina warm climate the former is the better mode; but the un-sightly projections thus formed should be…
Country homes · Architecture, Domestic
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