Download or read book A Home for All Or The Gravel Wall and Octagon Mode of Building written by Orson Squire Fowler and published by . This book was released on 1854 with total page 220 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book A Home for All the Gravel Wall and Octagon Mode of Building written by Orson S. Fowler and published by . This book was released on 2003-06-01 with total page 196 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 1848, Orson Squire Fowler, published A Home for All, or a New, Cheap, Convenient, and Superior Mode of Building in which he announced that the octagon house with its eight sides enclosed more space than a square one with equal wall space. The octagonal form had been used in public buildings in the past, but now as a concept for domestic architecture it had a dedicated and convincing champion. Fowler's books, stressing the functional and stylistic advantages of the octagon house, found many readers and several hundred followers who sprinkled the landscape from New England to Wisconsin with eight-sided houses, barns, churches, schoolhouses, carriage houses, garden houses, smokehouses, and privies. Fowler's creative idea for an octagon house came to him while contemplating a design for his own home. He wondered why there had been so little advancement in architectural design, particularly given the preponderance of scientific advancements. Looking for a radical change in house style, Fowler questioned why the spherical form that is predominant in nature was not employed in architecture. The constraint of right angles for the framing of houses was the obvious reason. Fowler thought "Why not have our houses six-, eight-, 12-or 20-sided? Why not build after some mathematical figure?" The solution: the octagon. Since octagons enclose more floor space per linear foot than comparable squares or rectangles, Fowler claimed they cost less to build and reduced heat loss. He also insisted octagons allowed in more sunlight and had better ventilation than conventional houses; owners of these unusual homes found that the improved light and ventilation went into the triangular closets and pantriesthat occupied the octagons' angles.
Download or read book A Home for All Or The Gravel Wall and Octagon Mode of Building written by Orson Squire Fowler and published by . This book was released on 1856 with total page 192 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book A Home for All Or The Gravel Wall and Octagon Mode of Building written by Orson Squire Fowler and published by . This book was released on 1854 with total page 212 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book A Home for All Or The Gravel Wall and Octagon Mode of Building written by Orson Squire Fowler and published by . This book was released on 1880 with total page 192 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Download or read book A Home for All written by O. S. Fowler and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2015-06-24 with total page 212 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from A Home for All: Or the Gravel Wall and Octagon Mode of Building To cheapen and improve human homes, and especially to bring comfortable dwellings within the reach of the poorer classes, is the object of this volume - an object of the highest practical utility to man. It delineates a new mode of inclosing public edifices and private residences, far better, every way, and several hundred percent, cheaper, than any other; and will enable the poor but ingenious man to erect a comfortable dwelling at a trifling cost, and almost without the aid or cost, as now, of mechanics. Except in a single particular, and this he has greatly improved, this mode is the invention of its author, and occurred thus. Till past forty, his profession engrossed too much of his time and means to allow him to procure a comfortable home; yet for ten years he has been making observations, in all his professional peregrinations, and cogitating by months, upon the best mode of building the home of his future years. These have at length brought him to results, now reduced to practice. Let no one suppose that he has forsaken, or even turned aside from, Phrenology - that first and only occupation of his enthusiastic youth, and the idol of his matured and declining years. He has turned aside only to build him a good home, and in doing so, has made and learned improvements to adopt which will greatly increase home comforts; and this work is written to propagate them, rather than as a complete architectural production. As its author is a phrenologist, not a builder, it may lack occasional details and specification yet will give every thing peculiar to this mode of building. Specifications respecting doors, floors, windows, etc., common to this and other modes of building, can be learned from scientific works on this subject. The octagon form and the Gravel wall are its two distinct characteristics. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
Download or read book A Home for All written by O. S. Fowler and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2017-10-11 with total page 208 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from A Home for All: Or the Gravel Wall and Octagon Mode of Building Especially ought every married pair to secure a permanent residence for themselves and children; for, without it, one pow erful mental faculty must suffer perpetual abrasion, and many more, diminished and interrupted action and pleasure. This moving is ruinously costly, alike destructive Of property and pleasure, cripples husbandry, prevents planting trees and vines, and obliges tenants to frequent the grocery, with money in hand, for a thousand little things which, if land-owners, they would raise. None can duly appreciate home, till, having once owned and lost one, after being cast Upon stone-hearted landlords, they repossess themselves of a comfortable domicile, again to feast upon the products of their own gardens and orchards. Father, mother, whoever, wherever thou art, heed this important advice provide A home first - whatever else you do, or leave undone. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
Download or read book A Home for All Or The Gravel Wall and Octagon Mode of Building written by O S 1809-1887 Fowler and published by Legare Street Press. This book was released on 2022-10-27 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work is in the "public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.
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