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Sloan, Samuel, 1815-1884 / Sloan's homestead architecture, containing forty designs for villas, cottages, and farm houses, with essays on style, construction, landscape gardening, furniture, etc. etc.
(1861)
Design XXXVI.: small bracketted villa , pp. 276-278 ff.
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HOMESTEAD ARCHITECTURE.
feet. There is a back entrance to the dining-room
through a little piazza, and also one to the kitchen.
The second floor, explained by fig. 163, contains
five very good chambers marked I, and a number
of appendages, such as closets, wardrobes, etc., rarely
found in a dwelling of this magnitude. K denotes
the landing of the main stairs and also a small sleep-
ing-room at the head of the private stairs; the ward-
robes are denoted by L.
CoNSTRUCTIoN.-As will be observed, this design
has been prepared with a view to the use of rubble-
stone in the erection of the walls. The corners are
represented as carried up with squared stone for bond,
which adds greatly to the architectural effect. The
reader who has perused our former descriptions will
perceive at a glance that slate or shingles will be the
proper roof-covering.
EsTmiATE.-Jn a neighborhood where rubble-stone
is readily procured, and having good facilities for the
transportation of such material as is necessarily
brought from a distance, the cost of this design will
be about $6000.
Fro. 163.-SECOND FLOOR.
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