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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talbrackets, and from the employment of brackets for supports, invarious other parts of the building. This bracketted mode of building, so simple in construction,and so striking in effect, will be found highly suitable to NorthAmerica, and especially to the southern states. The coolnessand dryness of the upper story, afforded by the almost veranda-like roof, will render this a delightful feature in all parts of ourcountry, where the summers are hot, and the sun very brightduring the long days of that season. Indeed, we think a veryingenious architect might produce an American cottage style,by carefully studying the capabilities of this mode, so aboundingin picturesqueness, and so easily executed. In actual fitness for domestic purposes, in this country, wethink this bracketted mode has much to recommend it. It isadmirably adapted to the two kinds of construction which must,for some time, be the most prevalent in the United States— D E SIG N V. A COTTAGE VILLA. IN THE BRACKETED MODE.
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Fig 37. COTTAGE RESIDENCES. 93 wood, and brick covered by cement. Its comparative lightnessof character renders it well suited for wood, and the protectionafforded by the projection of the roof, will give complete secur-ity and dryness to the walls, rendering good stucco or cementin such a situation as durable as stone. The facility of its con-struction is an additional circumstance in its favor, as the detailsare extremely simple—the ornamental brackets, which are theprincipal features of decoration, being cut out of pine or oakplank, two inches thick, and one or two patterns serving for thewhole exterior. Extending the roof in the manner shown in this design, givesexpression and character at once to the exterior, and the broadand deep shadows thrown by the projection are not only effect-ive and pleasing to the artistical eye, but they increase the actualcomfort of the chamber apartments ; a projection of from 20inches to three feet, serving as a hood to shelter the windowsfrom the

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