Reprint of the original, first published in 1877.

Excerpt from Home Building: A Reliable Book of Facts, Relative to Building, Living, Materials, Costs, at About 400 Places From New York to San Francisco; Containing 42 Plates and 45 Original Designs of Buildings, With Short Descriptive Specifications We know there are thousands of men and women, of the various callings of life, crowded and pinched together in the great cities of this country, waiting, watching, and anxious, who if they knew of the opportunity to shake off these bonds and acquire a real home that lies fully Within the bounds of development through carefully directed application in the right direction, and who, if they knew of the ways which lead out of the maze in which they are entangled, would gladly go forth to apply their energies and skill in this most noble calling of life, Home Building. And it has been, more than anything-else, the strong desire and purpose of the author, to put a work in the hands of this class that will at once afford a vast amount of thoroughly practical information as to what, and how to build, and an invaluable and extensive line of facts and figures in reference to routes and places from New York to San Francisco, and, in fact, all that is needful to know about them to form a correct and safe opinion, that dictated this book, beside the wish to afford a numerous host of inquirers, investors, tradesmen, farmers, dealers, merchants and traders, a greater chain of information of such a nature, and in such a manner, to our knowledge never before attempted. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

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