VALUABLE WORK ON ARCHITECTURE. 
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ATWOOD’S 
COUNTRY AND SUBURBAN HOUSES. 
By DANIEL T. ATWOOD, 
ARCHITECT, 
Hlustrated with about 150 Engravings. 
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The interest and love manifested by all classes for tasteful homes in the 
country may be regarded as one of the happy results of our united American 
civilization, and it is a cause of sincere thanksgiving that a policy of gov- 
ernment, so wise and liberal in its principles, has been maintained, in whose 
bounteous soil the sentiment for home beauty has been propagated, and be- 
come so universal among all classes of our fellow-countrymen. 
It is to contribute something toward the practical shaping of this interest 
that the author supplies the public with the hints and suggestions found in 
this work, as to the general principles of house building, style, cost, loca- 
tion, and modes of building; and he believes his labors will not be in vain, 
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CONTENTS. 
Hints to Hovuse-SEEKERS—CHOOs- 
ING A SITE. 
THE PLAN. 
Water Suppty. 
KITCHEN AND VENTILATION. 
PROPORTION. 
Tue STYLe. 
THE FounpATions. 
CISTERNS AND FILTERERS. 
SUPERSTRUCTURE WALLs. 
BRIck. 
DEscrIPTION or ANCIENT METHODS. 
CONCRETE WALLS. 
ELEMENTS OF A Goop CONCRETE. 
ConcrETE MovuLps; PRoPoRTIONS. 
How to Lay a WALL. 
PRICE, 
POST-PAID, 
AGGLOMERATED CONCRETE. 
AMERICAN BuILpine BLock. 
EN PIsE. 
Wooven WALzLs. 
EXTERNAL COVERING OF FRAMES. 
THE Roor. 
TIMBER: ITS PROPERTIES AND Pre- 
SERVATION. 
SELECTION OF TREES FOR TIMBER. 
SEASONING AND PRESERVATION OF 
‘TIMBER. 
PAINTING, 
DESIGNS AND PLANS OF COTTAGES, 
Viittas, Country Hovses, Sta- 
BLES, CHURCHES, ETC. 
$1.50. 
ORANGE JUDD COMPANY, 
245 Broadway, New-York. 
