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Cottage residences, or, A series of designs for rural cottages and cottage villas, and their gardens and grounds adapted to North America (1863)

Downing, A. J. (Andrew Jackson), 1815-1852, author · New York : John Wiley · leaf 261

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207 COTTAGE RESIDENCES. covered with green turf. There is, too, in most of the Trench plans, a lack of necessary attention to utility and convenience, especially as regards the kitchen offices, etc. In these respects, as in many others, the English plans for smaller places are models — showing how… … [Fig. 107.] Fig. 107 is an example of this kind. In this, c is the house, placed back far enough from the public road to give it so^ne privacy, and having a double entrance, A, R. Behind the house is a spacious kitchen yard, H, where all the outbuildings are entirely shut out from view, while they…

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