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 244
any pos-sibility fail to operate, are minute and positiveto the last degree, but not at all according tothe favorite rules and customs of the contractors.To give you a sample of his instructions : — A place somewhere for a thundering biggong that would rouse the seven sleepers andserve for Gabriel… … THE doctors basement. ILLUSTRATED HOMES. 247 These plans show how far I have succeededin harnessing the Doctor s thorough-bred ideal tothe four-wheeled lumber-wagon of actual practice. The side-hill lot, of course, furnished the keyto the first part of the puzzle. But it must bea corner lot, and…
Architecture, Domestic
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