Homes for the People, in Suburb and Country: The Villa, the Mansion, and the Cottage; Adapted to American Climate and Wants; With Examples Showing How to Alter and Remodel Old Buildings (Classic Repri - Hardcover

Gervase Wheeler

9780656258734: Homes for the People, in Suburb and Country: The Villa, the Mansion, and the Cottage; Adapted to American Climate and Wants; With Examples Showing How to Alter and Remodel Old Buildings (Classic Repri

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 065625873X ISBN 13: 9780656258734

Publisher: Forgotten Books, 2018

Excerpt from Homes for the People, in Suburb and Country: The Villa, the Mansion, and the Cottage; Adapted to American Climate and Wants; With Examples Showing How to Alter and Remodel Old Buildings

A fire that destroyed various buildings in Spruce street, New York, in the Spring of last year, consumed the whole of a volume then ready for the press, which the reception of my former little treatise had encouraged me to pre pare, and which bore the same title as the pre sent work.

By a complication of disasters, every portion of the result of' two years' labor was destroyed even the manuscript and delineations; so that the book now offered for perusal had to be commenced anew, with but memory to trust to, and love of the task imposed, to carry me through.

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