Rural Homes Or Sketches of Houses Suited to American Country Life With Origina
Rural Homes Or Sketches of Houses Suited to American Country Life With Origina
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Is the hall or vestibule, which, 144 RURAL HOMES. By reason of its pleasantly embayed window, would be a charm ing place to sit in for the lady of the house. A home constructed upon this plan, with simple rustic posts supporting the roof and veranda floors, with the battened sides and with sharp roof, would look highly picturesque, and be of moderate cost. Here it would require an expenditure of about sixteen hundred dollars. CHAPTER XL COTTAGES. IN that pleasantest of all country-written books... Rural Hours, the observant authoress dots down a series of observa tions upon rural architecture, so terse and pertinent, that, but for its length, I would like to quote the entire chapter. In a sketch of the several architectural eras that tha history of this countiy could show, she defines so admirably the transition, step by step, from the log-cabin ; " its very opposite, the lank and lean style, the shallow order, which aimed at rising far above the lowly log-cottage ; proud of a tall front and two stories ; proud of twice too many windows : but quite indifferent to all rules and proportions; to all appearance of comfort and snugness.
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To quickly assess the difficulty of the text, read a short excerpt:
Is the hall or vestibule, which, 144 RURAL HOMES. By reason of its pleasantly embayed window, would be a charm ing place to sit in for the lady of the house. A home constructed upon this plan, with simple rustic posts supporting the roof and veranda floors, with the battened sides and with sharp roof, would look highly picturesque, and be of moderate cost. Here it would require an expenditure of about sixteen hundred dollars. CHAPTER XL COTTAGES. IN that pleasantest of all country-written books... Rural Hours, the observant authoress dots down a series of observa tions upon rural architecture, so terse and pertinent, that, but for its length, I would like to quote the entire chapter. In a sketch of the several architectural eras that tha history of this countiy could show, she defines so admirably the transition, step by step, from the log-cabin ; " its very opposite, the lank and lean style, the shallow order, which aimed at rising far above the lowly log-cottage ; proud of a tall front and two stories ; proud of twice too many windows : but quite indifferent to all rules and proportions; to all appearance of comfort and snugness.
What to read after Rural Homes Or Sketches of Houses Suited to American Country Life With Origina?
You can find similar books in the "Read Also" column, or choose other free books by Gervase Wheeler to read onlineMoreLess
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