Woodward's Suburban and Country HousesG.E. Woodward, 1873 - 142 páginas |
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245 Broadway ARCHITECT arranged BALCONY balloon frame Balusters BARN basement bay window BED ROOM breech-loading weapons brick building built CARL PFEIFFER ceilings cellar cement chambers chimney cistern closets coal coats cold color comfort constructed containing convenient Cornices cost cottage country houses covered Designs and Plans dining-room DOLLARS door dwellings economical eight erection exterior Farm farm-house feet high finished fire flue French Roofs front furnace give gutter hall heat HENRY WILLIAM HERBERT horse improvements inches kitchen laid laundry Llewellyn Park manner Mansard roof miles open fire-place ORANGE JUDD Outbuildings owner pantry parlor Passaic River pipe plank plastered Post octavo Post-paid rain water RESIDENCE roofing felt Rutherfurd Park second floor side sixteen feet slate smoke square Stair-Builder stairs stairway stall stone story stove style SUBURBAN suburbs suitable taste tion trimmings ventilation veranda walls warm wood wood-work York
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Página 117 - ... there are old men yet dwelling in the village where I remain, which have noted three things to be marvellously altered in England within their sound remembrance. One is, the multitude of chimneys lately erected ; whereas, in their young days, there were not above two or three, if so many, in most uplandish towns of the realm (the...
Página 117 - ... and our heads did never ache. For as the smoke in those days was supposed to be a sufficient hardening for the timber of the house, so it was reputed a far better medicine to keep the good man and his family from the quacks or pose; wherewith, as then, very few were acquainted.
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Página 117 - Chapter, complains most pathetically, that " nothing was then required for building houses, but oak ; for," says he, " when our houses were built of willow, then we had oaken men ; but now that our houses are come to be made of oak, our men are not only become willow, but a great many altogether straw.
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Página 119 - One is elevation or height ; the other, warming the air by fire, by "'hich it becomes rarefied, and its weight diminished. The taller the chimney, or the hotter the fire, the more rapid will be the draught. It must be constructed vertically, as much length horizontally, by cooling the air before it gets into the effective part of the flue, will be sure to spoil the draught. If a grate or fireplace is troublesome by reason of incomp'etency to convey away smoke, it may be owing to too great an aperture...