Shelter and clothing; a textbook of the household arts (1920)
Kinne, Helen, 1861-1917. [from old catalog], Cooley, Anna M. (Anna Maria), b. 1874, joint author · New York, The Macmillan company · leaf 49
rn square cottage, or bungalow, well proportioned.A good design for a village house. The house should stand as far back from the street orroad as the grounds permit. If there is a choice betweenhigher and lower level, the former is usually preferable onaccount of soil drainage. To be sure, such a… … Fig, 12.—A postcolonial doorway, New Jersey, about 1800. 28 THE HOUSE 29 in foliage. Trees should not be too near the house for tworeasons; their roots may penetrate the walls of a cellar, andtheir shade lying on the walls and roof is bad for the fabricof the house and for the health of the…
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