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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 56

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covers them with a roof; the wholebeing designed in stiict accordance with the style of the build-ing of which it is to form a part. The apartment thus formedconstitutes for a brief period his parlor, dining-room, kitchen,and perhaps bis bed-room, although if he adopts the high pitches! COTTAGKS OF… … First Floor Plan. The kitchen, another lean-to, is next built, and the house be-comes a comfortable and convenient one for a small fomily,Our friend can now wait several years, if necessary, before 54: The House. building the main edifice, represented on the plan by the blacklines; interposing in…

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