Identifier: cottageresidence00down_0 (find matches)
Title: Cottage residences : or, A series of designs for rural cottages and cottage villas, and their gardens and grounds. Adapted to North America
Year: 1847 (1840s)
Authors: Downing, A. J. (Andrew Jackson), 1815-1852
Subjects: Architecture, Domestic Cottages
Publisher: New York : Wiley and Putnam
Contributing Library: Getty Research Institute
Digitizing Sponsor: Getty Research Institute

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use of much larger size than it really is. The pro-jection of the roof, and the ornamental cornice, as well as theheavy and appropriate window dressings, bestow at once anexpression of some elegance, and render the house superior tothe ordinary dwellings of this class. In the plan of the principal story Fig. 73, there is an entrancehall with a handsome staircase, and an apartment on eitherside ; that on the right being a parlor, and that on the left adining-room. In the piers on either side of the staircase, arespaces which designate hot-air flues, which proceed from thefurnace in the basement, and by means of registers, warm allthe apartments in the house, although the four principal oneshave fire-places besides, for occasional use if necessary. The first flight of stairs ascends half the story, and on a levelwith the landing here is the broad and airy balcony in the rear,entered by a fair round-headed window, opening to the floor. DESIGN IX. A COTTAGE IN THE ITALIAN, OR TUSCAN STYLE
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Fig. 73. COTTAGE RESIDENCES. 159 Underneath, this balcony forms a kind of partly enclosed apart-ment, serving as a wash-room or outer-kitchen in summer. There is also a balcony over the recessed porch in front,which is a pleasant appendage to the chamber floor. Thisfloor, Fig. 74, affords three pleasant bedrooms, and there is a

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