Author: Francis H Mclean

Publisher: Theclassics.Us

Published: 2013-09

Total Pages: 68

ISBN-13: 9781230473802

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. 1912 edition. Excerpt: ...is included within the size given. Each dwelling has also its own small back yard, fenced with a wire fence four feet high. The plumbing system of one has no connection with that of any other dwelling, in order that those unoccupied in cold weather may be properly drained and freezing avoided, and a separate water meter is provided for each tenant in order that water waste may be properly traced and corrected. The interiors of these houses are quite as unusual to this type of house as are the exteriors, the arrangement of the rooms and stairway being such that a single stairway is able to serve as both front and back stairs and may be approached and entered onto from either the living room or the kitchen. The first floor of each dwelling is divided into a small front vestibule, a moderate sized living room, a generous kitchen together with the necessary accompaniments of pantry and dish closets, a back entry of sufficient size to accommodate a refrigerator and the cosy recessed piazza before mentioned. The second floor is utilized for bed rooms and bath room, three bed rooms in the five room dwellings and two in the four room dwellings, the bath room being so located that a register in the kitchen ceiling provides the necessary heat in cold weather. Throughout the buildings the window and door openings have been placed so as to preserve the greatest amount of unbroken wall space and in each dwelling one of the bed rooms has been made of sufficient size to accommodate two beds, thus small houses by skillful planning have been made comfortable quarters for reasonably large families. The buildings are built of common red bricks laid to easy joints in white mortar, all stone trimmings are of white marble with tooled surfaces and all wood...