How to make a country place; an account of the successes and the mistakes of an amateur in thirty-five years of farming, building and development: together with a practical plan for securing a home and an independent income, starting with small capital (1914)
Sawyer, Joseph Dillaway. [from old catalog] · New York, Orange Judd company; [etc., etc.] · leaf 272
STCLIFF. The first two story semi-bungalow we built edged the Sound, andwas fronted by the storm-beaten cliffs shown in the photographs.Restcliff stood six feet above the ground on the south and threefeet on the north, soil being first well scraped from the cliff, naturaldrainage making it… … . THAT BIT OP MAINE COAST IX CONN. 254 HOW TO MAKE A COUNTRY PLACE we filled with rubble cement. On the first story twelve-inch floorbeams were used. To the inner side of each, one inch from bottomof beams, shingle laths were nailed, boards cut, fastened crosswise,then came two inches of rough…
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