 | Frederick Law Olmsted - Agriculture - 1852 - 256 pages
...the houses opposite, we see a bannister or hand-rail separates the sidewalk from the carriage-way, and are astonished, in stepping out to it, to find...street is some ten feet below us. We are evidently in the second story of the houses. Finding steps leading down, we descend into the streets and discover... | |
 | Frederick Law Olmsted - Agriculture - 1857 - 460 pages
...houses opposite, we see a bannister or hand-rail separates the sidewalk from the carriage-way, and arc astonished, in stepping out to it, to find the street is some ten feet below us. We are evidently in the second story of the houses. Finding steps leading down, we descend into the streets and discover... | |
 | Frederick Law Olmsted - Agriculture - 1859 - 418 pages
...feet below us. We arc evidently in the second story of the houses. Finding steps leading downwards, we descend into the street and discover another tier...shops, on the roofs of which we have been walking. Going on, we shortly come to where the two streets meet in the centre of the town. Passing over the... | |
 | Frederick Law Olmsted - Agriculture - 1859 - 394 pages
...feet below us. We are evidently in the second story of the houses. Finding steps leading downwards, we descend into the street and discover another tier...shops, on the roofs of which we have been walking. Going on, we shortly come to where the two streets meet in the centre of the town. Passing over the... | |
 | Frederick Law Olmsted - Agriculture - 1859 - 398 pages
...feet below us. We are evidently in the second story of the houses. Finding steps leading downwards, we descend into the street and discover another tier...shops, on the roofs of which we have been walking. Going on, we shortly come to where the two streets meet in the centre of the town. Passing over the... | |
 | Frederick Law Olmsted - Agriculture - 1859 - 380 pages
...feet below us. We are evidently in the second story of the houses. Finding steps leading downwards, we descend into the street and discover another tier...shops, on the roofs of which we have been walking. Going on, we shortly come to where the two streets meet in the centre of the town. Passing over the... | |
 | George Ashdown Audsley - Chester (England) - 1908 - 206 pages
...striking, by looking at the little windows and rude carvings of the houses opposite, we see a banister or handrail separates the side-walk from the carriage...shops, on the roofs of w'hich we have been walking!" Whatever the origin or requirements which gave rise to this system of street architecture may be, both... | |
 | Frederick Law Olmsted - Architecture - 1852 - 264 pages
...the houses opposite, we see a bannister or hand-rail separates the sidewalk from the carriage-way, and are astonished, in stepping out to it, to find...street is some ten feet below us. We are evidently in the second story of the houses. Finding steps leading down, we descend into the streets and discover... | |
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or handrail separates the side-walk from the carriage way, and are astonished, in stepping out to it, to find the street is some ten feet below us. We are evidently on the second floor of the houses. Finding steps leading down we descend into the street,... 