Friday, August 26, 2016
Radford easter egg
For fans of old architecture: I was looking through Googlebooks for a printing-related item, and the search pointed to a volume of Agricultural Review. As I scanned through the PDF from the back, I realized this was something other than agriculture. It's architecture, and the style looks awfully Radfordian.
Yup. In fact the last 200 pages of this PDF are Radford's Farm and Building Book. Lots of plans for barns and chicken coops and houses! Must have been bound with Ag Review by a librarian. These buildings are considerably better than Radford's fancier cottages and mansions, which were often buggy.
Includes this picture of a Gothic-roof barn "under construction in Washington"....
And the finished product:
Looks familiar. There are several barns like this down around Pullman and Moscow. Also note the clever?? design of the rock wagon in the construction picture. The seat is a sort of pommel mounted WAY up on wooden pilings, cushioned by wooden leaf springs.
¶ 8:09 AM 
Yup. In fact the last 200 pages of this PDF are Radford's Farm and Building Book. Lots of plans for barns and chicken coops and houses! Must have been bound with Ag Review by a librarian. These buildings are considerably better than Radford's fancier cottages and mansions, which were often buggy.
Includes this picture of a Gothic-roof barn "under construction in Washington"....
And the finished product:
Looks familiar. There are several barns like this down around Pullman and Moscow. Also note the clever?? design of the rock wagon in the construction picture. The seat is a sort of pommel mounted WAY up on wooden pilings, cushioned by wooden leaf springs.
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