. The house: a manual of rural architecture: or, How to build country houses and out-buildings .. . Side in a box on the roof, are indicated in the rearwall. The inside walls are to have two coats of plaster, amibe wainscoted up to the windows all around. The roof maybe covered with slate or shingles, as most convenient. Thobell cupola, very appropriately a prominent ornamental anduseful feature in school architecture, may be constructed ofwood, as shown. Access to it may be had from the second-floor hall, by means of a step-ladder. The school-room fur-niture consists of
. The house: a manual of rural architecture: or, How to build country houses and out-buildings .. . Side in a box on the roof, are indicated in the rearwall. The inside walls are to have two coats of plaster, amibe wainscoted up to the windows all around. The roof maybe covered with slate or shingles, as most convenient. Thobell cupola, very appropriately a prominent ornamental anduseful feature in school architecture, may be constructed ofwood, as shown. Access to it may be had from the second-floor hall, by means of a step-ladder. The school-room fur-niture consists of double desks, about three and a half feetlong, with stooK 158 The House. All school-houses should, if possihle, be constructed of solidmaterials—brick or stone—in so substantial a manner as tooutlast all the other buildings in the town or village, and servefor the accommodation of many generations of children, whose Fig. Plan. prominent destructiveness thoy are better calculated to resistthan any wooden building can estimate.: cost of this school-house is within $1,700. APPENDIX. A. now TO BUILD WITH KOUGH STONE. Lkt the qiiarryirifn split it off just as the veins of the stone make it mosteaaily worked. Select such pieces as, from their length and even quality,seem adapted for sills and lintels, and use the remainder just in the shape itnaturally comes upon your jjround from the quarry. In building jour walls,lay the stone in its exact bed as it lay in the quarry, and here and there letlong pieces be introduced, ihe length of the thickness of your walls; these,lying across, would serve as bonders to the walls, and will materially strengtheuthe work. A wall built in this manner, in irregular courses, looks remarkablywell for country buildings, and it is the method in which the time-honoredrural churches of England have been built, than which more simply beautifulor more durable erections can not
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