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 60
ly small.Our designs for houses of this sort will be found, we tliink,to combine, so far as is possible, the qualities of economy,convenience, and beauty. They are generally compact andsimple in plan, and plain but substantial in construction, andpresent a modest and unpretending but pleasing… … II.-PLANS FOR A SMALL COTTAGE.These plans exhibit an arrangement of rooms well adapted tothe use of a mechanic or laborer of small family and limitedmeans. The living-room is a handsome apartment of good size. 3* 58 The House. entered from the lobby or hall, and also communicating withthe kitchen.…
Country homes · Architecture, Domestic
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