. The house: a manual of rural architecture: or, How to build country houses and out-buildings .. . Second Floor Plan. inside and outside, are handsome, bold, and executed afterworking drawings; the windows are glazed with single, thickFrench glass; the parlor, dining-room, study, and front hallare hard finished and have molded cornices, and the otherrooms, landings, etc., with the best brown wall. All outsideBtuddings are back-plastered; the whole of the wood-work Houses of Two Stories. 79 ordinarily painted is covered with two coats of zinc paint; theusual gas-pipes are put in; and the kitch
. The house: a manual of rural architecture: or, How to build country houses and out-buildings .. . Second Floor Plan. inside and outside, are handsome, bold, and executed afterworking drawings; the windows are glazed with single, thickFrench glass; the parlor, dining-room, study, and front hallare hard finished and have molded cornices, and the otherrooms, landings, etc., with the best brown wall. All outsideBtuddings are back-plastered; the whole of the wood-work Houses of Two Stories. 79 ordinarily painted is covered with two coats of zinc paint; theusual gas-pipes are put in; and the kitchen sink is suppliedwith water from the street. We have been thus particular in reference to the materialsand construction of this house, because, having been built, itsactual cost is known, and will serve as a basis on which to cal-culate approximately the cost of other similar houses. FEUITLxVND COTTAGE. The accompanying design represents a house erected at Fruitland, near Augusta, Georgia. It is a concrete or. Perspbctivb View. gravel-wall building, and the mode of its construction may Ijefound detailed in the Appendix. The most obvious requirements of a Southern countryhouse are—am} le space^ shade^ and vctitilation. Where land is 80 The House abundant and cheap, the ground plan should be so extended astOLget all the room needed as near the ground as possible, andavoid the fatiguing ascent of high flights of stairs. On any
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