. Suburban homes for city business men. A description of the country, with a statement of the inducements offered on the life of the Erie railway . s countryfilled with beautiful cottages, ever^^ one a specimen of excellent taste, andpainted in appropriate colors. For the engravings and descriptive matter of houses and plans shown,we are greatly indebted to Mr. Geo. E. Woodward, Architect, No. 191Broadway, New York, who is the author and publisher of the most popu-lar books on architecture of the day. Should the reader desire fuller in-formation or a greater varietj^ of designs he will find th
. Suburban homes for city business men. A description of the country, with a statement of the inducements offered on the life of the Erie railway . s countryfilled with beautiful cottages, ever^^ one a specimen of excellent taste, andpainted in appropriate colors. For the engravings and descriptive matter of houses and plans shown,we are greatly indebted to Mr. Geo. E. Woodward, Architect, No. 191Broadway, New York, who is the author and publisher of the most popu-lar books on architecture of the day. Should the reader desire fuller in-formation or a greater varietj^ of designs he will find the following booksvery desirable for his purpose. They are all published by Mr. Woodward,and it is hoped that many of the exceedingly pretty designs given thereinmay be extensively copied. Woodwards Country Homes, Jacques Manuel of The House, Rural Art, No. 1—1867, ■ 2—1868, Wheelers Rural Homes, *• Homes for The People. To our many readers we say, during the fine days of Spring, Summeror Autumn, buy excursion tickets, and take frequent rides over the ErieRailway; examine the country, and see for yourselves if it be not aiOOodly D No. 13. The associations of the school-room, if pleasant, are of a lasting andbeneficial nature. Those educational institutions possess the most at-tractions, that are so situated that all the surroundings shall have a fa-vorable influence ; and there is nothing like example in early up and educate a child among those who know nothing of the re-finements of life, away from the progressive examples of art and taste, ina tumble-down, unplastered, ill-heated and ill-ventilated apartment, andit never can become, with all the aid of books and teachers, as thor-oughly cultivated and fitted for the duties of life as one who has enjoyedassociations of a higher order. School architecture has a meaning in it;there is value, proportion, harmony, beauty, light and shade, as appliedto school buildings, that is not comprehended b
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