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Villas and cottages (1874)

Vaux, Calvert, 1824-1895 · New York, Harper & brothers · leaf 161

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e, adopted on the staircase side of the hall, sothat the necessary uniformity may be preserved. Such a house as this could be fairly built for $3500in ordinary building times, and is equally fitted for abrick, wood, or stone construction. The same generalplan may be amplified so as to include a… … CHAMBEE PLAN. ATTIC PLAN, VILLAS AND COTTAGES. 157 The vignette shows a study for a farm-house intend-ed to be built of brick or stone. The aim here hasbeen to design a building that shall be domestic andsimple, and yet not unsuited in artistic effect to takeits place in a rural landscape. One…

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