The Story of the House / Being Some Suggestions in Brickwork from the Catalogue of O. W. Ketcham

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I would have, then, our ordinary dwelling-houses built to last and built to be lovely; as rich and full of pleasantness as may be within and without: ✠✠✠✠ with such differences as might suit and express each man’s character and occupation, and partly his history.
“Seven Lamps of Architecture”
Ruskin
“T he crowded line of masons with trowels in their right hands, rapidly laying the long side-wall
The flexible rise and fall of backs, the continual click of the trowels striking the bricks,
The bricks, one after another, each laid so workmanlike in its place, and set with a knock of the trowel handle”
“Song of the Broad Axe”
Walt Whitman.
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1899 by