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crete cases. As one example, we may take the storage 

 house of Mr. Charles L. Green, of East Wilton, Maine, 

 built in 1903. This building is 30x40 feet, with 1 2-foot 

 posts upon the sills. It also has a cellar or lower 

 story dug out of a gravel bank and facing toward the 

 south. There is a large door to this basement story 

 so a load of apples can be backed in without unload- 

 ing. The cellar walls are built of quarried granite 

 laid solid in cement. The underpinning is of granite 



A COMMERCIAL VENTILATED STORAGE HOUSE 

 IN NOVA SCOTIA 



laid in Portland cement and lined with brick. The 

 basement will hold 1000 barrels, and the first floor will 

 hold approximately the same amount. 



The building is sheathed on the outside with 

 matched hemlock covered with thick sheathing paper 

 and this in turn covered with clapboards and well 

 painted. The studding were also sheathed again in- 

 side and then a new course of studding set around 

 inside of the first and sheathed again. This gives two 

 dead air spaces and three matched sheathings besides 



