Modern dwellings in town and country adapted to American wants and climate with a treatise on furniture and decoration (1878)
Holly, Henry Hudson, 1834-1892 · New York, Harper & brothers, publishers · leaf 144
run up to the heightof two or three stories. This was the origin of the Mansard roof. If ourlegislators would really take the matter in hand, and look to the ultimateadvantage of beautifying our cities, they might, without tyranny, passsome law whose effect would be to encourage this reform. By… … Design No. 23. In a book of mine published some years ago—at the time when the]Sew York Post-office was just commenced, and Barnums Museum wasstill fresh in the memory of children and our country cousins—I expressedsome of these sentiments on the laws of alignment. My remarks sug-gested to the Rev.…
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