Home building : a reliable book of facts, relative to building, living, materials, costs, at about 400 places from New York to San Francisco. Containing 42 plates and 45 original designs of buildings ... also with extended and elaborated specifications of materials and labor, merchandise and where it may be procured. Tables of costs of materials at about 400 places from the Atlantic to the Pacific. Descriptions and statistics for 1876, of over 250 cities, towns and hamlets. How to reach them, their hotels, populations, healthfulness, industries, institutions, churches, newspapers, lots, farms near and values, advantages and prospects. Places of resort for health noted. Many illustrations and practical useful suggestions / by E.C. Hussey.

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Hussey, E. C. (Elisha Charles)

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Publication:

[New York] : [Leader & Van Hoesen], [©1876]

Description:

viii pages, 42 preliminary leaves, pages 197-416 : illustrations

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Advertising matter at end.
Microfilm. New Haven, Conn. : Research Publications, 1971. 1 microfilm reel ; 35 mm. (American architectural books : based on the Henry-Russell Hitchcock bibliography ; reel 46, no. 619).

Subject:

Architecture, Domestic.
Architecture, Domestic United States.
Architecture, Victorian United States.
Architecture domestique États-Unis.
Architecture victorienne États-Unis.
Architecture, Victorian.
Travel.
United States Description and travel.
États-Unis Descriptions et voyages.
United States.

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American architectural books : based on the Henry-Russell Hitchcock bibliography.

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Location: Library study room microform 69851
Call No.: ID87B7159s46 MFM; ID:91-B821
Status: Available

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