Illustrated homes: a series of papers describing real houses and real people (1875)
Gardner, Eugene Clarence, 1836-1915 · Boston, J. R. Osgood and company · leaf 188
o accept inferior houses forthe sake of being odd, or to pay a larger pricefor what is no better. These buildings thatyou call prosaic are doubtless in the style that sbest adapted to supply the needful comforts ofliving with the smallest outlay. Whatever isadded to them must be in the way of… … ILLUSTRATED HOMES. I91 beginning with the wall for the foundation andunderpinning. This shall be composed of thegranite blocks that cover the proposed site andiill the ground. At least one third of it will bein sight, but what of that ! The rocky bluffsthat overhang the river, and on which…
Architecture, Domestic
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