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 95
92 The House. VIIL—A CIECULAE HOUSE.There are queer people in the world—a great many of them—and it is not strange that there are also queer houses. Now,as our little book is made for everybody, it is but just thatqueer peo])]e and their houses should be represented in it. Fig. fo. … spEOTivE View. Very few jjersons, we presume, will desiie to build a circu-lar house, although it is the form, as geometry demonstrates,in which the greatest possible space may be inclosed by a givenamount of wall; but for the oddity of the thing, or becauseeconomy of space may be secured, somebody…
Country homes · Architecture, Domestic
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