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SA Builders
December 1887
Volume 4
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Issue 6build
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Features
Testing Pile-Protecting Compounds
Optical Refinements in Architecture
A Tower on the Mount of Olives
The Shakespeare Memorial at Stratford-Upon-Avon
A Dwelling of Moderate Cost
To our Readers and Patrons
A Large Contract for Roofing Plate
A Suburban Residence
A Correction
Our Forestry Problem
A French Cottage
Bamboo Tree
A Residence for $8,000
An Egyptian Temple
Construction of Chimney Flues
Roadside Plantations of Trees in Belgium
Fireproof Structures
The White Ash
Sawdust
Typhoid Fever Carried by Well Water
Improvements in making Portland Cement
An Unsafe Church
Dwellings at Glenridge
Fire Bricks
Collapse of Walls of Burning Buildings
Cedar Pavements
Hemlock
A $2,500 California House
Blue Marking Ink for Boxes, Bales, Etc.
The Architectural Era
Nails
How to Build an Ice House
Rabbit Remedy
Look to Your Drain Pipes and Wells
Chateau at Castelnaudary
Arch Construction
Painting
Removal of Chimneys
New Form of Chimes for Churches
Tube Chimes
Miss Florence Nightingale's Home
Homes of Factory Operatives
Roburite—A New Explosive
Iron Beams in Place of Wood
Gangways v. Staircases
Bathing Establishment and Casino in Vittel (Vosges) Built by Charles Garnier, Architect, of Paris
The Back Yard
Pine Woods
Thomas Ustick Walter
How we have Grown
Sketch for a Cottage
A Good Suggestion
A $4,200 Dwelling
The John Crouse Memorial College for Women
How a Marble Statue is Made
Proportions of Rooms
A Residence for $5,000
A Great Building
A Stable Costing $5,500
A Cottage for $4,200
Plants for Room Decoration
An Improved Double Surface Planer
The Popular “Fortune” Hot Air Furnace
Notes and Queries
Foundations in Wet Ground
The Charter Gas and Gasoline Engine
The Wainwright Horizontal Feed-Water Heater
An Improved Hand and Foot Power Band Saw
How to make a Cheerful Foreside
Not Defective Plumbing
Business and Personal
The Sounding Board in St. Paul's Cathedral