. Cyclopedia of architecture, carpentry, and building; a general reference work ... SUMMER COTTAGE FOR THE MISSES DUMMER, AT HARBOR POINT, MICH. Pond & Pond, Architects, in 1903. Cost, $7,300. Plans and Interior are Shown on Pages 86 and Fore^word HE rapid evolution of constructive methods in recent, years, as illustrated in the use of steel and concrete,^; and the increased size and complexity of buildings,has created the necessity for an authority which shallembody accumulated experience and approved practice along avariety of correlated lines. The Cyclopedia of Architectu
. Cyclopedia of architecture, carpentry, and building; a general reference work ... SUMMER COTTAGE FOR THE MISSES DUMMER, AT HARBOR POINT, MICH. Pond & Pond, Architects, in 1903. Cost, $7,300. Plans and Interior are Shown on Pages 86 and Fore^word HE rapid evolution of constructive methods in recent, years, as illustrated in the use of steel and concrete,^; and the increased size and complexity of buildings,has created the necessity for an authority which shallembody accumulated experience and approved practice along avariety of correlated lines. The Cyclopedia of Architecture,Carpentry, and Building is designed to fill this acknowledgedneed. C There is no industry that compares with Building in theclose interdependence of its subsidiary trades. The Architect,for example, who knows nothing of Steel or Concrete con-struction is today as much out of place on important workas the Contractor who cannot make intelligent estimates, or whounderstands nothing of his legal rights and responsibilities. Acarpenter must now know something of Masonry, Electric Wiring,and, in fact, all other trades employed in the erection of a build-ing; and the same is true of all the craftsmen whose handiworkwill enter into the completed structu
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