Identifier: villascottages00vaux (find matches)
Title: Villas and cottages
Year: 1874 (1870s)
Authors: Vaux, Calvert, 1824-1895
Subjects: Architecture, Domestic
Publisher: New York, Harper & brothers
Contributing Library: Getty Research Institute
Digitizing Sponsor: Getty Research Institute

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DESIGN No. 26.
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TLAN OF PRINCIPAL FLOOR. VILLAS AND COTTAGES. 283 DESIGN No. 26. WOODEN VILLA WITH TOWER AND ATTICS. This design belongs to a gentleman in Worcester,Massachusetts, and has been adapted to a fine situa-tion about a mile from that thriving city. The pro-prietor of the site has no very immediate intention oferecting his country house, but, unlike many of hiscountrymen, has preferred to have his plans beforehim for a year or so, prior to breaking ground, so thatall the minor points of internal convenience and exte-rior detail may be fairly and completely discussed andstudied out as opportunity offers. This is a mode ofproceeding much more likely to lead to a satisfactoryresult than to leave the whole matter to the last mo-ment, and then hurriedly instruct an architect to pre-pare plans, specifications, and contracts in the courseof a fortnight, that shall be warranted to supply allthe accommodation required by each member of afamily, in exactly the artistic form that will suit everybody,

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