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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
THE✠STORY✠OF✠THE✠HOUSE
BEING SOME SUGGESTIONS IN BRICK-WORK FROM THE CATALOGUE OF O.W. KETCHAM, WHOSE OFFICE IS IN THE BUILDERS’ EXCHANGE OF THE CITY OF PHILADELPHIA IN THE STATE OF PENNSYLVANIA.
“The 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”