An Architectural Monographs On Essex a Connecticut River Town
An Architectural Monographs On Essex a Connecticut River Town
Harold Van Buren Magonigle
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EMPHASIS has heretofore, quite naturally, been placed upon White Pine as an ex- terior finish wood, for it is in this connec- tion that White Pine has its greatest usefulness for the architect and its greatest economy for the owner. The architect knows that his most deli- cate profile can be executed in White Pine, that the mitres will hold and that he will have a cabinet-like job decades after the house is completed. We have always conceded that cheaper woods may answer the purpose for framing... and inte- rior trim. There are, however, two exceptions where the exacting requirements of sound con- struction call for the same qualities which make White Pine superior as an outside finish wood. They are — lath and the framing members for door and window openings. What greater disappointment to the architect than walls and ceilings which crack or stain almost before the house is occupied; what greater * Volume IV, Number 5, October, 1918; Volume IV, Num- ber 6, December, 1918; Volume V, Number i, February, 1919; Volume V, Number 5, October, 1919; and \'olume VI, Num- ber 5, October, 1920.
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