Hobbs's architecture: containing designs and ground plans for villas, cottages and other edifices, both suburban and rural, adapted to the United StatesWith rules for criticism, and introduction . FIRST DESIGN CV. MODEL RESIDENCE. This design is In the Ovo order of is nothing guessed at in its proportions, butall is evolved in a positive law regulating the of the members, brackets, and cornices, have arelative character of parts, as well as a decided quan-tity of plain to ornamental surface. The buildingwas designed for and built by Mr. Garrettson, ofPottsv
Hobbs's architecture: containing designs and ground plans for villas, cottages and other edifices, both suburban and rural, adapted to the United StatesWith rules for criticism, and introduction . FIRST DESIGN CV. MODEL RESIDENCE. This design is In the Ovo order of is nothing guessed at in its proportions, butall is evolved in a positive law regulating the of the members, brackets, and cornices, have arelative character of parts, as well as a decided quan-tity of plain to ornamental surface. The buildingwas designed for and built by Mr. Garrettson, ofPottsville, at a cost of ^18,000. It has given greatsatisfaction, and is very ornamental. The interior iswell arranged to suit a peculiar situation, standingon a wall at its rear that separates the lot from therailroad, of some twenty feet high, the principal streetbeing at an elevation of thirty feet above. The lotbeing shallow, every inch of room had to be arrangedin the most economical manner, and we say It is agreat success. The first story is twelve feet, thesecond, eleven feet, third, eleven feet high. First Floor.—A, porch ; V, vestibule, 6 by 8 feet;P, parlor, 16 by 23 feet; L, library, 16 by 9 feet
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