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 65
First Floor Pi.a*. 62 The House. In Fields Rural Architecture, and there said to be of En-glish origin. It presents a compact arrangement of rooms,with no waste space, and admits a symmetrical elevationeither in the pointed or in the Italian style, as may be desired.The number of angles in the… … Second Floor Plan. equal interior accommodations. Many will consider the supe-rior beauty of such a building a full compensation for the extraexpense. The bath-room, on the second floor, is to be lighted by hav-ing the upper half of the door glazed with ground glass. Theopening marked A is to be an…
Country homes · Architecture, Domestic
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