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all community had its frame meeting house, containing within its walls "all the ideals, political, moral, intellectual and religious of the people who attended,"[125] the seats of county government in colonial Virginia were centrally located in rural settin

clerk's office, and, sometimes, a row or cluster of offices for lawyers. Invariably, also, an inn or ordinary occupied a site within the compound or immediately adjacent to it. This style of courthouse may be found through Virginia, da

tract consisted of four acres, acquired by a deed from Richard Ratcliffe and his wife Serian. Specified in the deed were structures including a courthouse, clerk's office and gaol, "... and every other building and Machine necessary ..."-the latter presumably referring to gallows, pillory, stocks, and the like. The May 1798 Fairfax County Court Order Book did s

the prison bounds. This was done in March 1800, and the area was des

rch Eighteen Hundred, to lay off ten acres of ground for the prison rules of this County, and have ascertained and bounded the same by the following meets and boundaries, ... including the said four acre

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eet, and the jail about the same distance south, but in back and west of the clerk's office. The plat does not show roads or other features of the platted parcel, but the known position of the courthouse in relation to the turnpike supports the suggestion that the brick tavern referred to was located on the north side of

court. In the first three decades of the nineteenth century, the town of Providence grew up around the courthouse, and by 1835 some 50 dwellings and 200 residents were listed.[129] But the

building, one or one-and-one-half stories high, with a chimney at the south end and a door opening on the east side. This office was the depository of all important public records in the county, and therefore was a focal point for much of the activity that occurred at the courthouse throughout the

repairs combined with the need for more space required increasing attention to the old building, until, in 1853, it was determined that a new office building for the clerk must

e and Virginia Advertiser of July 15, 1853, and provides a detailed description of the materials and construction to be

eased or moved to a temporary seat elsewhere, care and custody of the clerk's office could not be guaranteed. Many of the record books and files were taken to places of safekeeping in private homes. However, many could not

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esign were reminiscent of the eighteenth century buildings of James Wren. The late nineteenth century's preference for exterior decoration was illustrated by a dentiled cornice, a belt of corbelling three courses wide in the brickwork below the cornice, and brick pilasters on each side of the main doorway, topped by scrolls and brackets supporting the pediment. In the center of the building on the second floor, a Palladian-style window was installed, providing a contrast to the design of the oth

lief funds. This building was demolished when the extensive addition was made to the courthouse, 1951–1954. A new wing was put on the back of the courthouse in 1956 to accommodat

the original four-acre tract. No contemporary descriptions or records of the jail have survived, but the survey sketch shows a two-story building with chimneys at ea

example, that the bars used on doors and windows were the flat type (rather than round or other shapes), which were laid across each other to form a lattice and riveted together where they overlapped

ertiser, April 8, 1809, carried an invitation for bids to build a jail at Fairfax Court House. Moreover, although the records of the county court for the next fifty years contain references to repairs and co

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authority in Fairfax County used jail facilities in neighboring Alexandria and Leesburg when the need arose. During the latter years of the war, when Union troops occupied the courthouse, the jail offered its facilities as

Atlas showing the courthouse complex depicts the jail as being larger than the courthouse in size. In 1884, fire destroyed this build

n the original section (facing onto the turnpike) the windows have plain wooden pediments. The cornice and chimney tops are corbelled, and there are iron cresting and finials on the ridge of the hipped roof. In the second section, which forms part of the stem of the "T," there are segmental arches over the windows and an ornamental cornice consistin

isoners shortly after that time, for when the addition to the courthouse was completed in 1956, jail facilities were incorporated into this addition. Since 1956, the old jail building ha

w all counties had to build and maintain a courthouse, jail, pillory, whipping post, and stocks. This law also required that there be two acres of land around the buildings of the courthouse, and that prison bounds of ten acres should be provided for the "health and exercise of prisoners."[136] A report of a survey of the courthouse tract in March 1800 shows metes and bounds for a four-acre tract wi

his building as it appeared in 1800 has been found. It was, at least in later years, a multi-story building which rivalled the courthouse in size, and expanded as the patronage of the

the court, and lawyers maintained their offices there. An advertisement in the Fairfax Herald of April 8, 1887 refers to the building as the Union Hotel, and describes it as a three-story brick building with annex, containing about twenty-fiv

f Fairfax. The bricks, mantels and doors from the hotel were re-used in construction of the home of Helen Hill and Francis Pickens Miller, called "Picke

t in diameter at the top, and was surrounded by a raised platform. Standing on this platform, one drew water from the well by a windlass operated by a hand-crank. Later the box on which the windlass was mounted was fitted with a hand pump, and a trough for filli

books and the board of supervisors minute books. As recently as 1931, outside toilets were still in use. In October of that y

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te Veterans, commemorating the first Confederate officer killed in the Civil War. The second monument was erected under the auspices of the Fairfax County Chapter of the Daughters of the American Revolution

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cannon on the left is inscribed with an anchor and the following lettering: 12 PDR Boat Howitzer 1856 J.A.D. U.S.N.Y. Washington 757 LBS. 58 PRE No. 45. The cannon

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n of the Board of Supervisors of Fairfax County, Virginia...." The third is a plaque commemorating the building of the first addition to the courthouse, A.D. 1929, W. I. Deming, Architect, and C. H. Brooks, Builder. In the central entrance hall, there is a bronze plaque commemorating the large addition to the courthouse comple

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que (1974 listing) placed by the Fairfax County History Commission in 1976. In the hall inside hangs a plaque fro

chamber are oil portraits of county notabl

e firemen of Fairfax County. A small bronze plaque with a poem and the ded

annot claim to represent any particular period of Fairfax County's history with full historical or architectural integrity. As now redesigned and rebuilt, the courthous

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adequacy for their function.[139] Consequently, the courthouse building, which in other respects was a plain rectangular two-story brick structure, departed from strict utilitarian design wit

e that is associated with the nave of a church.[140] The space over the arcade on the second floor was enclosed, and presumably used as the jury room. This room was entered from a balcony located across the front of the building (the back of the cour

the day concerned him. One or more separate tables customarily were provided for the clerk of the court and those of his staff who attended the court session. It was also customary to separate the portion of the courtroom occupied by the Court from that occupied by the public, and this was accomplished by installation of a wooden railing or partition. Fireplaces heated the courtroom chamber an

plans for construction of The Falls Church, which formed the nucleus of the village which grew up around it. In 1767 he designed the plans for Christ Church in Alexandria. Wren and William Weit were each paid forty shillings in 1769 for plans furnished to the vestry, for Pohick Church.[142] He had, through design of these a

o Truro Parish, Fairfax County. The first reference to James Wren in the land records of Fairfax County is found in a deed dated June 15, 1756 in which one James Scott conveyed to Wren a tract of 200 acres on which Wren was then living. Ultimat

military service in the Revolutionary War he held various offices in the County government, including that of sheriff and commissioner of the tax. He acquired extensive landholdings in Fairfax and Loudoun Counties. James Wren wa

flect the general level to which that art had advanced in colonial Virginia. The styles were adapted from prototypes in England.[146] Innovations which were made in adapting thes

, all combined to suggest the influence of this capitol building on the courthouse design.[147] The courthouse was far from being a copy of the capitol and Wren added to these familiar features several new ones that made the courthouse an architectural innovation in its own right. When it was completed in 1800, the Fairfax County Courthouse was the first example of a new design which architectural historians have called "the town hall style,"[148] and have traced to Engli

bable that he knew of this style that was enjoying current popularity in England, and that John Bogue, the "undertaker" who built th

period, the analogy is weaker when functions are compared. The courthouse for Fairfax County was designed and used entirely as the seat of local government. The commercial activity th

of the community. The style of the English town halls provided space in the open arcade of the ground floor to house a f

's medieval castles and monasteries. At the time when town-and-market halls were common in the central squares of free towns in Italy, Germany and the Low Countries, they were absent in England. Th

unty Courthouse built in 1808, the Sussex County Courthouse built 1825–28, and the Madison County Courthouse built 1829–30. Variations in the layout of the interior appeared in the use of the space over the arcade; sometimes it was used for the jury room, and at other times it was used to accommodate a balcony for spectators.[151] A

deed, looking at the courthouse square in 1900, it might have seemed that the courthouse was the only building that had not been rebuilt, re

County Court was seated, flanked by smaller tables where the court's clerks did their work. Customarily, also, a railing across the room separated this space from visitors whose business or curiosity led them to crowd in upon the

urt it became customary to renovate the court rooms to install the features which have become associat

ry, and were reflected in the courthouses built in Virginia during that period. Therefore, when the Fairfax County Courthouse

lls and the roof." Moreover, the work of renovation had to be carried out under the double difficulty of shortages of funds and labor that was skilled in cabinetmaking and metalworking. In the end, the restoration of the courthouse was a gradual process in which

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maged Said building and have greatly annoyed the citizens living nearby by violently ringing the bell. It is

ce the convening of court sessions. In the Fairfax County Courthouse, the bell was hung in a cupola on the ro

of the chamber. Tradition holds that the benches had been pews at one time in Jerusalem Baptist Church located on the O

on has been found in the courthouse attic. It is possibly the fixture which the sheriff was directed at the Febr

windows on the first and second floors was removed to change the windows into single two-story-long vertical openings. The courthouse windows remained this way until 196

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ty. The judge's bench was located at the west end of the courtroom on a raised platform and behind a heavy wooden balustrade. Against the west wall of the room and behind the judge's bench, wooden panelling covered the space from the southwest corner of the room

n balustrade. Seating for the public on the ground floor was provided in two sections of wooden benches-the former church pews referred to earlier-separated by a center aisle. At the rear of this section

and small office which occupied the second-floor space over the entrance arcade. Three rows of benches, each raised one step above the one in front, provided additional seating space fo

aking an L-shaped building. In this process the clerk's office which was built in 1876 was torn

or to restoration. Pho

nother wing identical with the original and first addition segments. At the rear (west side) of these

wo large courtrooms and several smaller chambers in the center block of the building provided facilities for hearing cases. The new and larger building also provided space for t

rious segments of the building, compatible fenestration and colonial period styles in hardware and painting all contributed to this result. Most influential of all in maintaining this architectural integrity, perhaps, was the use of archwa

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sing civil government have been developed beyond the utilitarian. This tradition, of course, has given us not only a remarkable group o

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the Wren family, both in England and Americ

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ers or settlers of that area, with modifications occasioned by climate, the types of building material obtainable, and the quality of labour available. Thus, in seventeenth century New England building followed t

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irginia," Journal of the Society of Architectural

ctivities may even overshadow the building's associations with government, as in the case of Blandford, Dorse

1969), pp. 194–220, describes the impact of Dutch accomplishments in the ar

desman, which presented to the street a series of arched openings where work was done and wares were displayed during the day. At night these arches were shuttered,

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l, with the following inscription: "TW & RC SMITH ALEXANDRIA 1844." It has not been determined when thi

of each arm were fitted to hold glass globes or lamp chimneys. Fairfax County Court Minute Book, 1888–1892, p. 216. The end of the gaslight era occurred shortly after 19

homas Chapman, former

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Similarly, it ceased to receive the attention needed to deal with the natural deterioration produced by use and the passage of time. By the early 1960's these effects were evidenced by leaking roofs, unreliabl

ission which together proposed that the work of renovation be done in such a way as to restore the original appearance of the courtroom. The Bar Association formed a S

ndmarks, was retained to prepare the necessary plans. In March 1966, the Bar Association's Committee reported the completion of this preliminary work to the Board, and successfully secure

descriptions of the courtroom or other records of building specifications had been found; nor was any special research in eighteenth century sources undertaken for this purpose. As a result, the work produced a courtroom with idealized colonial-pe

eate a room with the atmosphere of Virginia's colonial period, and secondarily to buil

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ecialty bricks turned out to be a close match for the originals which were thought to have been fired from clay dug in Fairfax County.[164] Specially mixed mortar made from sand, li

ere altered to form two rows of smaller windows, with the space between the first and second-floor rows filled with new brickwork. This change in the fenestration restored th

wooden louvres were repaired, the cupola was painted, and a weathervane restored t

isclosed as the interior was systematically dismantled down to the building's outer shell. When woodwork, hardware, plaster and flooring were removed, it was

d green. Behind this ceiling were laths laid over hand-hewn oak rafters. A few of the original hand-split laths and han

e side walls, and in the reconstruction fresh p

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this floor was an older floor of brick. It was not determined whether this brick work had been the original floor of the courtroom or whether another wooden floor had

ty of the fireplaces in the two corners of the open area at the rear (east end) of the courtroom. These

re replaced by wood-burning or coal-burning stoves standing on the brick hearths with their stovepipes fitted into the chimneys. Finally, when the stoves were replaced by central heating and hot water radiator

troom. Thus when the stairs along the south wall were replaced, a similar set of stairs was built and installed on the north side of the courtroom. No dates for the

s in the outer wall aligned at the level of the balcony a

of the courtroom instead of merely along the back end, or in covering the entire room and creating a full second story fo

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stones were found in the courtroom floor, and when the interior was dismantled it was discovered that the chimneys rested on beams above the courtroom ceiling. These chimney

9. One of these doors led into a set of judge's chambers and the other (in one corner) opened into a corridor leading to the main portion of the addition running south from the old courthouse. In the restoratio

from the wall behind the judge's bench, the bricks showed marks of an arch. The judge's bench which ultimately was constructed and installe

gray shades of paint similar to those in colonial buildings. From the ceiling in the center of the courtroom were hung chandeliers found in the courthouse attic. While not of "colonial" design, they were used because the

ill forms a square near the center of the City of Fairfax, at the intersections of two main roads, Routes 236 (Little River Turnpike) and 123 (Chain Bridge Road). The general setting is gently rolling terrain, and the courthouse site is on a slightly higher elevation than the surrounding area, with ston

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ides facing north and south, with the main entrance at the east end of the building. A portico extends across the entire east end of the building

n height beneath all but the front (east) quarter of the floor space. Additional brick bases, approximately 18 inches square and resting on the ground, were located in the cra

interior entrance was built at the south end of the basement. Next to the basement toward the front (east end) of the building, another crawl space (measuring 81/2 × 251/2 feet) was deepened to a uniform 3 feet, and a new wall was built on the east side, extending the full width of the building. This new wall was 8 inches thick, and constructed of cinder block and brick, anchored with 16 × 16 × 12 inch concrete footings. Beneath both crawl spaces and the basement a 3-inch thick con

is entered through a series of arches supporting the second-floor front section of the building. The three arches across the front of the building are 7 feet wide and 11 feet high at the center of the arch. The arches at the north and south ends of the portico are 61

spond to the four corners of the courtroom, and rise 111/2 feet above the roofline at the eaves. In the center of the table end at the front of the building, the fifth chimney stands, extending 5 feet above the

ng windows on the north and south sides of the building were converted into two sets of smaller windows, one above the other, and regularly spaced along the sides of the courtroom. In the upper row,

ll dimensions of these windows are 4 × 51/2 feet. The three windows on the lower level are slightly larger-4 feet × 6 feet 9 inches, and hav

he courthouse is located in the center of the wall, and flanked by one

ed, but the existing jambs were used wherever possible. All shutters

y applied repairs to these shingles as needed. Little of the slate which remained in 1967 was thought to have dated fro

pola was constructed of white pine, and consists of a square box in which is mounted an octagonal compartment with louvred sides. Topping the panelled portion of the cupola is an onion-shaped dome, culminating in a ball which, acc

ion to combine ornamentation with functionalism in the architectural design. This feature is a round "fan window" framed by a circle of bricks in the center of th

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of the fireplaces across each of the front corners and the curving rear edge of the central (or spectator) portion of the courtroom. At its narrowest point in front of the double doors the foyer is 10 feet 4 inches wide, and at its widest points on

inch facing surrounding the opening and painted flat black. The fireplaces are entirely framed with plain architraves

of the floor, the height of this wainscotting varies from 4 feet 2 inches to 4 feet 3 inches. Its panels are

ntral section of the courtroom. On each side of the double door and at each end of the foyer lanterns are mounted on the wall. These fixtures are of the type commonly used as carriage gate or guardhouse lanterns, and are 9 × 61/2 × 5 inches, with

the lock-box and keeper painted flat black. At the top and bottom of the door black me

ion is raised 73/4 inches above the floor of the foyer, and free-standing wainscotting of the same style and height as are around the

ng is provided in five rows of benches of pine, with natural finish on the seats and back rests, white painted sides and bases, and natural cherry moldings along the top of the back rests and arms. Along the base at the front

following the arc of the edge of the raised flooring, and measure 1

here are no lighting fixtures in this section of the courtroom. At the rear of

case, on the south wall. The decision to add a staircase on the north side came during the reconstruction when evidence of an earlier staircase on that side was revealed as the plaster was remo

open style stairs, with no brackets and plain balusters, 1 inch square, painted white and supporting a cherry handrail. Newel posts at the

basement. The doors to this closet and stairway are made of vertical beaded boards similar to the wainscotting, each equip

e arranged so the two rear benches are on daises raised 9 inches above the one in front. Solid-panelled free-standing wainscotting is set along the back of the rearmos

e two staircases, is a railing of plain white spokes (matching the baluste

ard wainscotting standing 3 inches high is around the sides and rear wall of the balcony

above the first-floor portico, an area 12 × 19 feet. The doors to the room are 2 feet 10 inches by 6 feet 10 inches, with 4 panels. Doors and frames are painted white, with brass doorknobs and modern locks set in the doors. The wall between the ju

white architrave and mantel. A hearth of brick extends 18 inches out from the fireplace. Opposite the fireplace is a 12 by 18 inch plastered masonry pier extended up from the exterior wall at t

ion of the courtroom. This railing, similar to those of the staircases and balcony, stands 2 feet 81/2 inches high. Gates 3 feet wide and mounted on double sprin

of this enclosure, against the west wall of the courtroom is the judge's bench, flanked on its right by the witness stand. The bench itself is relatively small, measuring 6 feet 5 inches across and

or the judge's bench. Two 6-panelled sections at each end of this screen are flanked by fluted pilasters with modified capitals supporting a plain entablature. Between these sections are 3 panels, the two on either end being composed of 3 tiers of panels edged with fluted pilasters. The center

to the 1967 reconstruction, a doorway in the west wall was located on the judge's left side as he sat on the bench. As presently reconstructed, this doorway has been closed and covered by panelling,

ins 2 rows of benches, each raised an 8-inch step above the one in front. The front row is 9 feet 3 inches long, with aisles 18 inches wide at each end allowing passage from the second row to the front, and

octagon, and the face of each element contains a single recessed panel similar to those on the front of the judge's bench. The side of the witness box facing the jury is open to allow entry into the box, and the side next to the judge's bench is formed by the side of t

and a pair are located equidistant between these rows. Hanging from the ceiling over the central area are chandeliers which were found in the attic of the courthouse during the 1967 reconstruction, and refurbished and wired for electric lights. The lighting fixtures consist of six 24-inch arms, made of hollow brass tubing, extending out from a central hub. The hub, in the shape of a cup and decorated with a series of radia

is basement is provided by a staircase located at its south end. This stairway, 3 feet 6 inches wide with 73/4 inch risers, has 10

by 3 feet 3 inches. On the south side of the building, however, the dug-out space measures 7 feet 8 inches by 2 feet 9 inches and suggests that this was, at an earlier date, the point where an outside entrance to the basement was located. This is corroborated by markings on the inside of the basement wall which show that a doorway in the north end of the basement has been bricked up, and also that a second window similar to the existing one has been closed

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el, Jr.; W. Franklin Gooding, Assistant Clerk of the Courts; Senior Circuit Judge Paul E. Br

the total cost. Ultimately, the cost of the work was slightly in excess of $84,500, including the architect's fee, according to

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not dated, but probably was installed when the

ench are resting on wood above the ceiling, Macomber discovered. This, he said 'confused' him. He thinks that they probably were connected by long pipes to stoves in the courtroom. Yet he is not sure. It appears to Macomb

d he felt that these chimneys had been connected to stove

dated from about 1900; Northern Virginia Sun, January 8, 1966, 1. However, no documentary ev

e front wall I found a semi-circle deeply incised in the brick wall. I concluded there had been an original arched

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first floor of the front of the building were louvred in the top half and solid panel in the l

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d taught school in Fairfax and Loudoun counties. He served the county as deputy treasurer, deputy sh

in 1919. He served as commonwealth attorney for three terms and was appointed judge of the F

ol in Maryland and Tennessee. He practiced law and was for a short time superintendent of schools and a delegate to the

. He was a justice of the Fairfax County court and was ordained as an Episcopal minister, serving as rector of

a justice of the peace in each county within the entire Northern Neck, of which he was proprietor. He was a trustee of the town of Alexandria and in 1754 became commanda

th his cousin, Joseph E. Willard. Ford was appointed commonwealth's attorney for F

ther as clerk of the circuit court in 1887, serving until 1904, at which time he b

ustee of Alexandria and practiced law there and in Winchester. He represented Fairfax County in the House of Burgesses from 17

torney for the District of Columbia, 1804–1821, he practiced law before the U. S. Supreme Court and in Virginia and Maryland. He was one of

al of cavalry in the Confederate army. After the Civil War, he was elected a state senator and then

or most of his adult life, and a trustee of the town of Alexandria. He built his home, "Gunston Hall" in 1758. In 1774, he was the principal author of the Fairfax Resolves, and in 1776, the principal

n. In 1933 he was appointed an assistant secretary of state, and in 1937, he became counselor of the Department of State. Throughout his adult life

William Moss, clerk, and served as an assistant clerk or deputy clerk until 1870

was deputy clerk under his father for nine years, succeeding him in 1880. Elected to the new position o

d was elected to the state legislature for a number of terms between 1841 and 1875. Following the Civil War, he was appo

inia from 1850–1861. The circuit included Fairfax, Prince William, Loudoun and Fauquier cou

veyor, was elected a burgess, and appointed a justice of the Fairfax County court. During the American Revolution, he was appointed commander-in-chief of the

inia, 1902–1906. President Woodrow Wilson appointed him minister to Spain in 1913; later he was elevated to ambassador

END

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construction of the Fairfax County Courthouse as set forth in the drawings

ve two columns supporting balcony, and beams beneath floor untouched.

inscot, railings, bench, window & door

section of balcony back to e

building. Remove sash only from existing small windows, unl

ring in balcony and porch chamber,

first floor. All electrical wiring shall be removed and recapped below t

ts and plaques within building, securely store them, a

nstruction grade fir, free of all parasites & dec

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clear western white pine, S 4 S

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sills, brick-in two rough openings required by new windows. Set steel lintels as called for on plan, and brick between vertical window openings. Take care that the new

fireplaces. Build new hearths of dupl

ckwork, interior & exter

tripped with "Chamberlain" No. 100-A Zinc Heavy-Duty, full

all around, except at sill which is to receive "Chamberlain" N

of rock-wool or fibre-glass, combination aluminum foil insu

nterior or exterior, shall be back pr

te lead in oil. Remove loose or heavy accumulatio

of primer, one coat half primer & half e

nd primer. Second coat two parts flat wall paint & one part size. Finish with egg-shell wall paint. Plaster cornice to recei

imperfections & to reasonably level. Floors shall be stained, filled

ypsum lath securely nailed to 1" × 2" wood furring strips anchored to masonry. Coat mason

sum lath. Ceiling of porch to receive high-rib metal lath applied over existing wood ceiling. All inside corners to receive expanded

with moulding plaster. All surfaces to be plastered minimum 3/4" thick (including l

ck composed of two sheets of 1/8" double strength "A" window glass with one-quarter inch air space between. All glass

la to be back screened with f

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