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Title: Carpenter
Year: 1910 (1910s)
Authors: United Brotherhood of Carpenters and Joiners of America
Subjects: Carpenters -- Labor unions -- Periodicals McGuire, P. J. (Peter James), 1852-1906 Duffy, Frank, 1861-1965
Publisher: United Brotherhood of Carpenters and Joiners of America
Contributing Library: University of Maryland, College Park
Digitizing Sponsor: Lyrasis Members and Sloan Foundation

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rangements of rooms in a two-story house, each sketch or drawing beingcalled a plan and usually labeled FirstFloor, Second Floor, etc. Our illustration this month shows a hall,parlor, dining room, kitchen, pantry, frontand back porches, front, back and cellarstairs, a coat closet under the front stairs,a china closet in the dining room, a cup-board, and sink with drain-board in thekitchen, brick chimney, a specially con-structed brick mantel in the parlor, doors,windows, lights, etc., on the first floor. Threebed rooms, a sewing room which may beused for a bed room, a bath room, hall,closets, back porch, stairs to the attic, etc.The building is of frame construction withshingles on gable end and on the bay win-dows. I consider this the best possible plan fora moderate-priced, convenient home. It hasbeen built for from .$2,000 to $4,500, the lat-ter price is for brick with hardwood trim;$2,-500 is a fair price if of frame withmodem plumbing and hot air heat. In our 44 T Ih e Carpeumter
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45 T Ih e Carpeimter next lesson I want to show photographs ofsome of the interior details of this house. In making architectural drawings, weusually use a scale of one-fourth inch equalsone foot; that is, if the drawing measuresone-fourth inch it means that the object willbe one foot. In laying out a plan it is necessary toknow the sizes used and to get all the partsin proportion. It is a good plan to jot downall the sizes as you lay them off on the draw-ing, then you have them ready for futurereference. Walls—These for a frame house consistof studding four inches wide, the sheathingand weather boards, clapboards, or siding,as it is called in different sections, and thelath and plaster. (No allowance is made forthe paper). Altogether they measure aboutsix inches and are so considered. Thereforein making your drawing the outer and innerlines will be six inches apart or one-eighthinch if the scale is one fourth inch equalstwelve inches. The partition walls are made of studdingfour in

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