A treatise on architecture and building construction (1899)
International Correspondence Schools · Scranton, The Colliery engineer co. · leaf 404
same manner for ridge and plateas in an ordinary gable roof, the plate ch being seciirelytied across the building to keep it from spreading imderthe thrust. 141. The Mansard roof, sometimes called a curb roof,is shown in Fig. 52, and, as will be seen, it resembles thegambrel roof in having a very… … Fig. 52. roof is always the same on all sides, therein somewhatresembling the hip roof. The sides of the Mansard roof are generally, though notalways, curved, and aremuch more nearly perpen-dicular than the sides ofthe gambrel roof, as, inreality, these lower slopesof the Mansard are nothingmore…
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