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Homes in city and country (1893)

Sturgis, Russell, 1836-1909 · New York : C. Scribner's Sons · leaf 29

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13 THE CITY HOUSE IN THE EAST AND SOUTH dollar house and nearly as far for an eight-hundred-dollar one. Phil- adelphia as well as Baltimore had the advantage of plenty of land to spread over. It used this great advantage in a way not decorative or poetical assuredly, but in the most economical… … Rear View of Houses at Eighth and Spruce Streets, Philadelphia. The picture above shows the exterior, not indeed of just such a house as we have been describing, but of the corner house of a block of just such houses. The entrance being on the side street, around the corner, changes the arrangement…

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