(Boring assumptions, introductions, & housekeeping rules run down the right column.)
Friday, April 22, 2011
Primary Source - Placement of Mansion House and Lawn - John Beale Bordley 1799 Essays & Notes on Husbandry & Rural Affairs
John Beale Bordley. Essays & Notes on Husbandry & Rural Affairs. Printed by Budd and Bartram, for Thomas Dobson, at the stone house, no 41, South Second Street, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 1799
Placement of House and Lawn
The Mansion, is airy on every fide. The offices, being on the northeast and northwest angles, leave the mansion open to the south, east, and west, in a clean lawn: and from the north rooms there is a view of the farm yard and its business.
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