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" When we employ stone as a building material, let it be clearly expressed; when we employ wood, there should be no less frankness in avowing the material. There is more merit in so using wood as to give to it the utmost expression of which the substance... "
The Architecture of Country Houses: Including Designs for Cottages, Farm ... - Page 35
by Andrew Jackson Downing - 1852 - 484 pages
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The Fifth Reader of the School and Family Series

Marcius Willson - 1862 - 558 pages
...simple and obvious one, that both in material and character they should appear to be what they are. To build a house of wood so exactly in imitation of...endeavoring to make it look like some other material. 4. A glaring want of truthfulness is sometimes seen in the attempt of ignorant builders to express...
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