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    3038 Hennepin Ave Minneapolis, MN
    612-822-4611

Open Daily: 10am - 10pm | Alley-side Pickup: 10am - 7pm
3038 Hennepin Ave Minneapolis, MN
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Rural Residences; Consisting of a Series of Designs for Cottages, Decorated Cottages, Small Villas and Other Ornamental Buildings: Accompanied by Hint

Rural Residences; Consisting of a Series of Designs for Cottages, Decorated Cottages, Small Villas and Other Ornamental Buildings: Accompanied by Hint

Papworth, John Buonarotti

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ISBN10: 1154182673
ISBN13: 9781154182675
Publisher: General Books
Pages: 28
Weight: 0.15
Height: 0.06 Width: 7.44 Depth: 9.69
Language: English
This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1832 edition. Excerpt: ... ORNAMENTED COTTAGES, &c. &c. PLATE VI. A COTTAGE ORNE, DESIGNED TO COMBINE WITH GARDEN SCENERY. 1 HE cottage orn6 is a new species of building in the economy of domestic architecture, and subject to its own laws of fitness and propriety. It is not the habitation of the laborious, but of the affluent, of the man of study, of science, or of leisure; it is often the rallying point of domestic comfort, and in this age of elegant refinement, a mere cottage would be incongruous with the nature of its occupancy. The lawn, the shrubberies, the gravel walks, and the polish that is given to the garden scenery, connected with such habitations, require an edifice in which is to be found a correspondence of tasteful care: perhaps it is essential that this building should be small, and certainly not to exceed two stories; that it should combine properly with the surrounding objects, and appear to be native to the spot, and not one of those crude rule-and-square excrescences of the environs of London, the illegitimate family of town and country. It may be reasonably concluded, that many small dwellings, prior to the fifteenth century, were of the Gothic, and in the cathedral or conventual church character: where there are remains of early cottages, we find some features similar to the large build D ings situated near them. The master-workmen probably built for themselves dwellings upon the principles of the edifices on which they were employed; so that Gothic embellishments were not uncommon in small buildings, and if we may judge of former by very common practices in the present day, and by the mode of such buildings a century ago, the introduction of Gothic ornaments in cottages may be supported even on the authority of early examples. Many ancient...

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