Country Carpenter: Josiah C. Werner, 1863-1926Adam Werner (1800-1876) and his wife, Anna Catharine Sass, came to America from Germany in 1854 settling in Pennsylvania. This is the life story of their grandson, Josiah C. Werner, a Pennsylvania carpenter. |
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Page 89
The new church had side - steepled design with gabled roof . Its vernacular style
includes a picturesque four - gabled steeple , with open belfrey and stickwork -
decorated spire . The stccple is balanced by a grouping of three windows on the
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The new church had side - steepled design with gabled roof . Its vernacular style
includes a picturesque four - gabled steeple , with open belfrey and stickwork -
decorated spire . The stccple is balanced by a grouping of three windows on the
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Page 100
The four intersecting gambrel gables with modified Palladian windows at the third
level , and the wrap - around porch , incorporated some of the fashionable
features of the Grafton , W . Va . house . Located near the Western Md . railroad
track ...
The four intersecting gambrel gables with modified Palladian windows at the third
level , and the wrap - around porch , incorporated some of the fashionable
features of the Grafton , W . Va . house . Located near the Western Md . railroad
track ...
Page 103
It had a hip - gable roof , a wrap - around porch , central hipped dormer , front and
back staircase , dumb waiter , clothes chute , and sliding door betwcen living and
dining rooms . Archways connecting rooms were supported by Doric columns ...
It had a hip - gable roof , a wrap - around porch , central hipped dormer , front and
back staircase , dumb waiter , clothes chute , and sliding door betwcen living and
dining rooms . Archways connecting rooms were supported by Doric columns ...
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Bibliographic information
| Title | Country Carpenter: Josiah C. Werner, 1863-1926 |
| Editor | Catherine M. Rhoads |
| Publisher | Gateway Press, 1991 |
| Original from | the University of Wisconsin - Madison |
| Digitized | 16 Feb 2008 |
| Length | 128 pages |
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