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 100
se of erectionis more than paid for by the inconvenience of having neighborsso near. Nearly all houses in cities, it is true, are built so closeas a double house; but in cities there are no such things asneighbors, and families live in adjoining houses for years with-out any acquaintance.… … t T ^^: Li^^^ ^- ^-^ ONVENIENCE and comfort are the first re-^^^ quirements of a farm-house; but there is no^i:3^- - reason here, more than in any other sort of residence, why regard should not be had to beauty of ex-^^;J ternal features. The farmer may properly have as hand-M^M~ some a house as…
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