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Title: Architect and engineer
Year: 1905 (1900s)
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Subjects: Architecture Architecture Architecture Building
Publisher: San Francisco : Architect and Engineer, Inc
Contributing Library: San Francisco Public Library
Digitizing Sponsor: San Francisco Public Library

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MODEL MINERS HOUSE, DEVELOPED IN CONNECTION WITH*-•*: THE PLAN FOR TOWN NEAR JEROME, ARIZONA Herding & Boyd, Architects around and for closets. This will also prevent overcrowding and will makethese rooms exclusively sleeping quarters. Sleeping porches are not a need inthe permanent, low-cost house in Jerome climate. A narrow house with thearrangements for good ventilation, good sized windows and transoms over doorwill insure agreeable bedrooms. The basement floor on the downhill side provides a cellar and a workshop.Here is a laundry tub, a coal bin, wood storage, space for a workbench, etc.It is the idea to induce the miner to occupy his leisure hours here in a usefulway, to his liking. A terrace is just behind and is made private by having theend walls of the house protrude. A chicken yard can be worked in here easily,or a stable for some small domestic animals. THE ARCHITECT AND ENGINEER 73 The families are given a chance to work a garden in the allotted fenced-inspace direc

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