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 43
ts of this kind. Walls to protect terraces are often insufficient, unless they be built onthe principle of retaining wTalls, battering on each side; or if for goodreasons it is thought necessary to build the outside vertical, the insideshould have an additional batter, or incline. Indeed, this rule… … Desism No. 3. SITE. 39 posed to the cold, the frost is liable to penetrate their entire depth; espe-cially as builders are in the habit of carrying these down but a few inchesbelow the cellar bottom, regarding them in the same light as the foun-dations of the house. These, being protected on the…
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