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Title: American homes and gardens
Identifier: americanhomesgar61909newy (find matches)
Year: 1905 (1900s)
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Subjects: Architecture, Domestic; Landscape gardening
Publisher: New York : Munn and Co
Contributing Library: Smithsonian Libraries
Digitizing Sponsor: Biodiversity Heritage Library

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l62 AMERICAN HOMES AND GARDENS April, 1909
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14 —The entrance porch is covered with a shingled hood 1 5 —A glimpse of the piazza showing the reinforced concrete columns Crete or its derivative stucco. First in such a list would be the house with reinforced concrete skeleton and floors, and cement block or tile exterior. Not much can be said for the appearance of the ordinary cheap cement block uncovered, though as a basis for "ex- terior plaster" it is quite pleasing. It is entirely possible, however, to construct true concrete blocks at somewhat higher labor cost (wet mix), and finished either in the exact texture of stone or any of the frank concrete finishes. Cement mortar or concrete hollow tile ordinarily cov- ered with plaster are a third possibility. The superiority of cement to terra cotta tile lies in the color, which, if the plaster flakes off, does not show unpleasantly; in the re- sistances to moisture and frost; and that the expansion under heat and cold is the same as the covering cement mortar. The important point, however, is the skeleton, and the incombustible outside is the least Important. The prac- tise of making a cement block or tile outside with wooden frame and floors, and calling it "fireproof," can not be too strongly deprecated. Probably that construction for

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  • bookpublisher:New_York_Munn_and_Co
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