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 30
INTERIOR OF COTTAGE CHAMBER. hot; but they will be, unless ventilated as theirsituation requires and common-sense dictates. Meantime the Judge pondered the matter, andat last rendered a decision that the chambersmight have their corners clipped, provided theslant was not more than sixteen inches in… … ILLUSTRATED HOMES. 33 To reduce still more the apparent altitudeof the house a horizontal division was made byclapboarding the lower part of the outer wallsand shingling the upper, a belt of simply cutboarding separating the two styles of finish.The same effect might be more conspicuouslyproduced…
Architecture, Domestic
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