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Garden houses and privies : authentic details for design and restoration / Peter Joel Harrison.
LIBRA TH4975 .H37 2002
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Harrison, Peter (Peter Joel)
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Outhouses--United States--Pictorial works.
- Outhouses.
- Outhouses--Design and construction.
- United States.
- Genre:
- Pictorial works.
- Illustrated works.
- Physical Description:
- xvii pages, 245 pages of plates : chiefly illustrations ; 26 cm
- Place of Publication:
- New York : Wiley, [2002]
- Summary:
- An essential component of homes and commercial buildings before the advent of indoor plumbing, privies--also known as "garden houses"--have found new uses as storage sheds, pool houses, etc. In this pattern book of 18th- and 19th-century designs, Harrison has painstakingly documented existing historic structures and translated them into beautiful line drawings, including compelling details such as finials, doors, windows, and ventilators.
- Contents:
- Chapter I Colonial Times & Republic 1
- Chapter II Later Times 83
- Chapter III Modern Times 213.
- Notes:
- Subtitle on added t.p.: A vast collection of designs consisting of garden houses, tool houses, & bath houses : with much attention given to ornamental and plain privies, reflecting the great changes in style, Colonial, Gothic, Tuscan, French, & Swiss.
- ISBN:
- 0471203327
- OCLC:
- 50478585
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