Atwood's Country and Suburban Houses: Illustrated with about 150 Engravings |
Contents
HINTS TO HOUSE SEEKERSCHOOSING THE SITE | 13 |
THE STYLE | 27 |
THE ROOF | 33 |
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12 inches 15 feet 2.-First floor 24 inches 3.-Second floor 4x8 inches 9 feet arch architraves attic Balloon Frame balusters basement bed rooms black walnut boards brick built cellar cement cistern closets coats color construction Design dining room doors dwelling earth feet high feet wide finial finish Flemish bond floor beams foot front girths Gothic grain gravel ground in oil hall height inches from centers inches thick inches wide iron jambs kitchen laid lathed and plastered lime linseed oil lobby manner mill-worked mode of building mortar mortise mortise and tenon mortise locks mould nailed openings painting paneled pantry parlor piazza pine pise plaster plates porch proportion Provide and fix Provide and lay roof sand sashes Scale scantlings second floor second story side sills slate stairs studs style superstructure walls tenon timber trimmed turpentine white lead window wood wrought iron