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The story of the house

Chapter 1: THE✠​STORY✠​OF✠​THE✠​HOUSE BEING SOME SUGGESTIONS IN BRICK-WORK FROM THE CATALOGUE OF O.W. KETCHAM, WHOSE OFFICE IS IN THE BUILDERS’ EXCHANGE OF THE CITY OF PHILADELPHIA IN THE STATE OF PENNSYLVANIA.
By Orman Wesley Ketcham
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The text offers practical and aesthetic guidance for domestic architecture, emphasizing durable and attractive brick and terra-cotta work. It presents three parts: a narrative reflection on household spaces and ornament, a catalogue of moulded and specialised brick forms with sizes, profiles, and decorative possibilities, and a section on terra-cotta and hollow-tile fireproofing for structural protection. Plates and quotations accompany proposals for porches, chimneys, sills, cornices, and garden features, while listings of clay products and production capabilities advise builders and designers on material choices and custom fabrication.

THE✠​STORY✠​OF✠​THE✠​HOUSE
BEING SOME SUGGESTIONS IN BRICK-WORK FROM THE CATALOGUE OF O.W. KETCHAM, WHOSE OFFICE IS IN THE BUILDERS’ EXCHANGE OF THE CITY OF PHILADELPHIA IN THE STATE OF PENNSYLVANIA.

“The crowded line of masons with trowels in their right hands, rapidly laying the long side-wall
The flexible rise and fall of backs, the continual click of the trowels striking the bricks,
The bricks, one after another, each laid so workmanlike in its place, and set with a knock of the trowel handle”
“Song of the Broad Axe”
Walt Whitman.