Scientific American Architects and Builders Edition, No. 26, Dec., 1887
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Scientific American ARCHITECTS AND BUILDERS EDITION
THE SHAKESPEARE MEMORIAL AT STRATFORD‐UPON‐AVON.
Optical Refinements in Architecture.
Testing Pile‐Protecting Compounds.
A Tower on the Mount of Olives.
Scientific American.
CONCERNING AGENTS.
TO OUR READERS AND PATRONS.
A CORRECTION.
A SUBURBAN RESIDENCE.
A LARGE CONTRACT FOR ROOFING PLATE.
A DWELLING OF MODERATE COST.
A FRENCH COTTAGE.
Our Forestry Problem.
A RESIDENCE FOR $8,000.
Bamboo Tree.
FIREPROOF STRUCTURES.
Construction of Chimney Flues.
Roadside Plantations of Trees in Belgium.
An Egyptian Temple.
The White Ash.
Sawdust.
DWELLINGS AT GLENRIDGE.
Fire Bricks.
Improvements in Making Portland Cement.
Typhoid Fever Carried by Well Water.
An Unsafe Church.
Cedar Pavements.
Hemlock.
Collapse of Walls of Burning Buildings.
A $2,500 CALIFORNIA HOUSE.
The Architectural Era.
Blue Marking Ink for Boxes, Bales, etc.
CHATEAU AT CASTELNAUDARY.
Nails.
Rabbit Remedy.
How to Build an Ice House.
Look to Your Drain Pipes and Wells.
Arch Construction.
NEW FORM OF CHIMES FOR CHURCHES.
Tube Chimes.
MISS FLORENCE NIGHTINGALE’S HOME.
Painting.
Removal of Chimneys.
HOMES OF FACTORY OPERATIVES.
Gangways v. Staircases.
ROBURITE—A NEW EXPLOSIVE.
Iron Beams In Place of Wood.
BATHING ESTABLISHMENT AND CASINO IN VITTEL (VOSGES). BUILT BY CHARLES GARNIER, ARCHITECT, OF PARIS.
The Back Yard.
Thomas Ustick Walter.
Pine Woods.
SKETCH FOR A COTTAGE.
How We Have Grown.
A Good Suggestion.
A $4,200 DWELLING.
THE JOHN CROUSE MEMORIAL COLLEGE FOR WOMEN.
How a Marble Statue is Made.
A STABLE COSTING $5,500.
A Great Building.
A COTTAGE FOR $4,200.
A RESIDENCE FOR $5,000.
Proportions of Rooms.
Plants for Room Decoration.
The Charter Gas and Gasoline Engine.
AN IMPROVED DOUBLE SURFACE PLANER.
Foundations in Wet Ground.
HOW TO MAKE A CHEERFUL FIRESIDE.
The Sounding Board in St. Paul’s Cathedral.
THE POPULAR “FORTUNE” HOT AIR FURNACE.
Not Defective Plumbing.
AN IMPROVED HAND AND FOOT POWER BAND SAW.
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DEXTER BROTHERS’ ENGLISH SHINGLE STAINS
ARCHITECTS
COMPETITION.
ALL OUR FURNACES ARE
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Notes and Queries.
HINTS TO CORRESPONDENTS.
Building Plans and Specifications.
Business and Personal.
Classified Index of Advertisements Published in the Present Number of the Scientific American, Architects and Builders Edition.
COLORED PLATES.
MISCELLANY.
