. The house: a manual of rural architecture: or, How to build country houses and out-buildings .. . ist in the following particulars : 1. Will save the expense of removing the shingles. 2. The building will not be exposed to wet in case of rainbefore it is finished. 104 The House. 3. The roof will be much wanner and tighter. 4. Neither snow nor rain can beat under the butts of theshingles by heavy winds. 5. The roof will last full one third longer. I have tried this plan, and find that it has these advantages:It takes no more shingles, no more nails in number—only alittle longer—and no more ti
. The house: a manual of rural architecture: or, How to build country houses and out-buildings .. . ist in the following particulars : 1. Will save the expense of removing the shingles. 2. The building will not be exposed to wet in case of rainbefore it is finished. 104 The House. 3. The roof will be much wanner and tighter. 4. Neither snow nor rain can beat under the butts of theshingles by heavy winds. 5. The roof will last full one third longer. I have tried this plan, and find that it has these advantages:It takes no more shingles, no more nails in number—only alittle longer—and no more time to put them on, and if done ina workmanlike manner, it will look as well as if single. Butit should be done before the old shingles are too much decayed. All the moss—if any—should be removed or swept off witha stiff broom before putting on the new shingles.—NationalEra. ILLAS, 105 VII. VILLAS. Here no state cliiimlierg in long line unfold,Bilgtit with broail minors, rough with IretteYi-t niDileBt oinameut with use combinedAttracts the eye to exercise tlie mind. IS A VILLA?. TSTORTCALLY, the question is readily an-swered. It was originally a summer residencein the vicinity of an Italian city, erected foroccupation merely during the warm season. The wordis now used with a wider signification. According to Downing, what we mean by a villain the United States, is the country house of a person of competence or wealth sufficient to build and maintain it with some taste and elegance—the most refined home of America— the home of its most leisurely and educated class of citizens. What, then, continues Mr. Downing, should the villa be architecturally? It should be, firstly, the most convenient—secondly, the most truthful or significant—andthirdly, the most beautiful, of dwellings. The villa should indeed be a private house where beauty,taste, and moral culture are at home. In the fine outlines ofthe whole edifice, either dignified, graceful, or picturesque;
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