Two Serious Mistahes 



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I have said that there is no place for the 

 story- and- a- half house. Here is shown (Fig. 

 35) the results of two serious mistakes; viz., 



Fig. 3(5. The expensive box cornice 



an effort to build a cheap frame of such a form 

 that it is almost impossible to tie the building 

 together, with the result that the roof is in 

 danger of collapsing ; and the attempt to 

 beautify this cheap structure by over -heavy, 

 complicated cornices. An enlarged detailed draw- 

 ing of a typical return cornice is shown in Fig. 

 36. On the right is shown a cross -section out- 

 line of the members of the cornice. There are 

 ten of them. The mouldings are now " stuck " 

 by machinery, but these were made by hand, 

 and 10 and 8 were formed of two pieces 



