Cottage residences; or, A series of designs for rural cottages and cottage villas, and their gardens and grounds : adapted to North America (1873)
Downing, A. J. (Andrew Jackson), 1815-1852 · New York : J. Wiley & Son · leaf 60
en to ten per cent, on the whole cost, such a plain dwelling may be made the ornamental cottage shown in Design I., which we think would strike every observer as being tasteful and agreea- ble to the eye. Construction. —This cottage, being light and somewhat fanciful in its character, may be built… … Fig. 6. Fig. 7. supports in Fig. 7. 0, The ornamental cornice which surrounds the building, is shown more in detail at 3/ / the pendent portion being cut out of inch board, and the points terminated by acorns turned, and nailed on. The details y and z are to the scale of one-half of an inch to a…
Architecture, Domestic
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