A home for all, or, The gravel wall and octagon mode of building new, cheap, convenient, superior and adapted to rich and poor. : Showing the superiority of this gravel concrete over brick, stone and frame houses; manner of making and depositing it; its cost; outside finish; clay houses; defects in small, low, long-winged, and cottage houses; the greater capacity, beauty, compactness, and utility of octagon houses; different plans; the author's residence; green and ice houses; filters; grounds; shrubbery; fruits and their culture; roofing; school-houses and churches; barns and out buildings; board and plank walls; the working-man's dwellings, etc., etc. / By O.S. Fowler, author of various works on phrenology..

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Fowler, O. S. (Orson Squire), 1809-1887.

Contributor:

Fowler & Wells., Publisher.

New York Stereotype Association., Stereotyper.

American Imprints Collection (Athenaeum of Philadelphia)

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Architecture, Domestic.

Architecture, Domestic--Designs and plans.

Buildings, Octagonal.

Physical Description:

vi, [1], 8-192, [4], [4], [4], [4] p. : ill. ; 20 cm.

Edition:

Stereotyped edition; revised and enlarged.

Other Title:

Gravel wall and octagon mode of building

Place of Publication:

New York: : Fowler and Wells, publisher no. 308 Broadway. Boston: no. 142 Washington St. Philadelphia: no. 231 Arch Street., 1856, c1853.

Notes:

Later published under title: The octagon house: a home for all.

Edition statement transposed; precedes quotation on title page.

"New York Stereotype Association, 201 William Street."--T.p. verso.

Includes publisher's catalogues at end: "Works on phrenology," "Works on water cure," and "Works on physiology."

Local Notes:

Athenaeum copy: Library also has a copy of 1854 edition

Cited in:

Hitchcock, H.R. Amer. architectural books, 470

OCLC:

13174961