CLASSIC DWELLINGS,

Doric, Jonic, Corinthian and Gothic,

AND

DETAILS CONNECTED WITH EACH OF THE ORDERS;

EMBRACING

PLANS, ELEVATIONS PARALLEL AND PERSPECTIVE,

SPECIFICATIONS, ESTIMATES, FRAMING, ETC.

FOR

PRIVATE HOUSES AND CHURCHES.

DESIGNED FOR THE

United States of America.

BY EDWARD SHAW, ARCHITECT.

AUTHOR OF CIVIL ARCHITECTURE, OPERATIVE MASONRY, ETC.

BOSTON:

JAMES B. DOW, PUBLISHER.

1843.

RASVARD

COLLEGE
LIBRARY

Entered according to the Act of Congress, in the year 1843,
BY EDWARD SHAW,

In the Clerk's Office of the District Court of Massachusetts.

WM. A. HALL & CO., PRINTERS, 12 WATER STREET.

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PREFACE.

It is not the design of the author of this little Treatise, to go profoundly or minutely into the consideration of Architecture, either as a science or an art. This, to a considerable extent, he has done in his larger work on Civil Architecture, of which the fourth and most complete edition was published in 1834; and to that work he would respectfully refer those, who wish to go into the study of the mathematics of architecture, embracing in that term the doctrine of "lights and shadows," as well as to enter upon the scientific principles and practical details of carpentry, and to make themselves acquainted with a variety of foliage, flowers, and other ornamental parts of buildings, ancient and modern.

In the present work, he supposes his reader already acquainted, at least, with the elements of mathematics, and with the practical application of them to architecture, as well as with the principles of carpentry, joinery, and masonry. And the object of the author in the present work is, chiefly, to lay before the reader, and especially the practical architect, a variety of plans, elevations, &c., of edifices, principally dwelling-houses, and places of public worship, with such directions as to the more usual details and decorations, as his experience, as a practical builder, for more than thirty years, has proved useful to himself, and such as he, therefore, supposes may be so to others. If they are found to be so, by his fellow-laborers, in an art to which men, in a civilized state are indebted for most of the comforts, and for all the elegancies in their own houses, or in those which they enter for the worship of the Most High, the main object of his labors will have been attained.

E. SHAW.

THE ARRANGEMENT AND CONSTRUCTION OF DWELLING-HOUSES, AND OF
BUILDINGS IN GENERAL.

RURAL ARCHITECTURE.

PART I.

HISTORY AND PROGRESS OF ARCHITECTURE.

Ar a very early period, as might be expected, architecture had made some progress; for we are informed by holy writ, that Cain "builded a city, and called the name of the city after the name of his son, Enoch."* But we are wholly in the dark as to the perfection to which it had attained when that awful visitation of the Almighty, the universal deluge, obliterated almost every mark of previous habitation. The next mention of it is in the account of the building of the tower of Babel, which was stopped by the confusion of tongues. This was soon surrounded by other buildings, and walls of great magnitude; and here, therefore, may we date the origin of postdiluvian architecture. Whatever celebrity, however, the wonders of Babylon attained, among the ancients, no remains of them have come down to us; and it is the massive edifices of Egypt, built, apparently, rather for eternity than time, which now excite our admiration as the most ancient, as well as stupendous structures existing upon earth. We must not, while under this epoch, omit to notice the remains, and, alas! the only remains, of Indian and Mexican greatness. But for the splendid ruins of Delhi and Agra, and that most

* Genesis iv. 17.

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