The house: a manual of rural architecture: or, How to build country houses and out-buildings .. (1866)
Jacques, D. H. (Daniel Harrison), 1825-1877 · New York, G.E. & F.W. Woodward · leaf 10
houses were readilyconstructed. These, m the Eden-like climates of the Ea.^t,where the race is supposed to have originated, probably sat-isfied the Avants of the men of tlie first ages. At a later day, and in a le.ss genial climate, dwellings wereconstructed by cutting down trees and placing them,… … 10 The House. the North American savage. In other cases a frame-work ofpoles was covered with strips of bark or skins of animals. Thedome-like mud huts of some of the African tribes, with holestwo or three feet high for d^ors, through which one must enteron all-fours, advance in point of…
Architecture, Domestic
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