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 86
JOHN SMITH S BEAU IDEAL. logic could convince her that a simple brace,supporting the overhanging roof; is in bettertaste than the seven-horned dragons that aresupposed to perform that office ; but her housewas to be different, newer style as she thought, … ILLUSTRATED HOMES. 89 and that was enough. The arguments of warm-er in winter, cooler in summer, no paint, plentyof rose-bushes, etc., were quite superfluous. Ofcourse she convinced her husband; and theonly objection he suggested was the extra costThis by careful estimate would not exceed…
Architecture, Domestic
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