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 15
mind. 1. Adaptation to Use.—In erecting a building of any kind,the first thing to be considered, and the last to be lost sight o^is the use to which it is to be appropriated. Adaptation to thisuse must not be sacrificed to anything else. The plan and con-struction of a dwelling-house, for instance,… … H0USE-I5UILDING. 15 house should be unlike the cottage of the mechanic. And thelaw of fitness applies to all the details of a house as well as toits general form. It should be our guide in the arrangementof rooms; in the disposition of doors, windows, stairs, andchimneys; and in the provisions made…
Architecture, Domestic
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