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SA Builders Vol 3 Issue 1build

SA Builders

Volume 3, Issue 1build

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Features

Drawings by Mail

Asphaltum Pavement

Gluing

A Drinking Fountain

The American Institute of Architects

A Glance at the Character of their Work, and its Influence upon the Growth of American Art

C. Powell Karr

How not to do It

An Eighteen Hundred Dollar Cottage

St. James' Rectory, Fordham, N. Y.

A Dwelling of Moderate Cost at Rutherford, N. J.

Health in Schools

Decorative Painting

Stained Glass Substitutes

Invisible Nails

A Note on Watering Potted Plants

New Crematory in Paris

To Imitate Ground Glass

Composition for Making Artificial Marble

Specifications for Plumbing, Gas, and Natural Gas Fitting

L. O. Danse

A City Residence

Petroleum V. Nasby on Socialism

Brickmaking under New Condition

House to House Inspection

A Dwelling at Springfield, Mass.

A Cottage at Halifax, N. S.

Distempering Ceilings

A New Leveling Instrument

Advantages of Low Ceilings

Concrete Floor

The Tehuantepec Ship Railway

Air in Greenhouses

How to Grow Large Potatoes

A $2,200 Residence at Detroit, Mich.

Removal of Snow from Streets

The Grecian Architectural Style

N. Clifford Ricker

A New Method of Glazing Sash

Peter Henderson

Paris Cement

Adamant—A New Invention

The Bee's Sting a useful Tool

Sandpapering and Polishing Machine

Combined Hammer and Planer

Charles F. Brent, Alfred Lang

New Roofing or Staging Bracket

Henry E. Tolman

Design for a Tomb

Brick Pavements

How to Darken Oak

How to Measure Bridge Deflection

Home Furnishing

Washboards

A Lumber Roller

Cleaning Waste Pipes

Measurement of Brickwork and Masonry

Carved Design in Boxwood

Tile Roofs

Trade Surveys

Carved Oak Room

Gliding on Glass

A Residence of Moderate Cost

Ten Mile Cannon

Royal Society Medals

Egyptian Bricks

A Convenient and Certain Mode for Tempering Steel

Architectural Charges for Professional Practice

First Congregational Church, Minneapolis

A New India Rubber

Weathering Stone

The Coloring of Metals

A Hall Screen

How to make Paper Roses

Two Dwellings of Moderate Cost

Hemlock Lumber.—Southern Furniture Factories

Rosewood Stain

Coverings for Hot Air and other Pipes

Cross of Wheat and Rye

Mantelpieces from Old Dublin

The Greatest of Great Walls

A $1,500 Cottage

W. H. Harvey

Laundry Hints

Errors in Planning Houses

A New Cement from Slag

Apparatus for Painting Shingles

Clifford I. Millard

Anti-Magnetic Shields for Watches

The Narrowest Houses in New York

John M. Page

Gas Lamps for Lighting Large Spaces

A Large Casting

Spontaneous Combustion of Wood

Notes and Queries

Hints to Correspondents

Departments

Business and Personal - January 1, 1887