Outside Steps. To be constructed with 2 by 10-inch plank carriages, 16 inches on centers.
Treads of outside steps to be of $-inch by 4-inch hard pine strips, with rounded nosings and coving under, returned at the ends. Risers i-inch thick.
Ceiling of covered porch and piazza to be of i-inch by 21-inch tongued, grooved, and beaded North Carolina pine.
Columns. To be built up of white pine, with turned shafts of diameter as shown for lower third and diminishing slightly above, with moulded caps and moulded bases.
Balustrade. At floor and at roof of porch and side piazza, and over dining-room bay, to be of 2.I-inch stock, 2 inches apart, turned.
Posts. Posts on porch and piazza roofs are to be built up with turned finials, and supported by pieces running up from plate or sill inside of posts.
Top rail to be built up and moulded; lower rail, 2 by 3 inches, solid, beveled.
and Scuttle. Plank frames in stonework in basement, except where shown double-hung, are to be of 1i by 6-inch pine, with by 1--inch moulded staff bead, and 21-inch sill. Frames to be rebated on the outer edge for screens. Sash to be hung at the top, to swing in.
All windows shown with meeting rail, or unless otherwise specified, to have pine frames made for double-hung sashes, with finch hard pine pulley stiles, tongued into outside casings, beads, 1-inch ground casings, Winch yokes, 21-inch sills to pitch 11 inches, i-inch by 5-inch outside casing over boarding, with 11 by 21-inch back band window caps as shown. To have 2-inch bronze-faced axle pulleys.
Scuttle. To be 2 feet by 2 feet, with plank frame 6 inches high. Heavy strap hinges, and fixtures to hold cover at any angle. Frame and cover to be tinned.
Door-Frames and Door-Frames. To be made from clear pine stock, 1 inches thick, rebated and beaded on inner edge, and with 11-inch hard pine thresholds. Casing of outside door-frames to correspond with windows.
Inside Door Frames. All inside swinging doors to have 1i inch double-rebated and beaded frames of pine or whitewood to match adjacent finish. Veneer for other woods with 1-inch veneer
on 11-inch pine.
Sash. Sash to be of white pine, unless otherwise specified. In first story 11 inches thick ; in second and third stories, and all of ell, to be 1-inches thick; in cellar, 11 inches thick. Large one-light sash to have V,-inch meeting rails. Sash not to be stained.
Doors. Doors, except stock doors, to be paneled and moulded according to scale and detail drawings. All panels to be loose and not glued or nailed. Tenons to have --inch haunches. Outside veneered doors to be 21 inches thick; doors 3 feet wide and over, to be 2 inches thick; all others, 11 inches.
Front and Rear Ila1 Doors. Are to be 21 inches thick, of white pine, veneered inside to match vestibule, lower panels raised, upper panel glazed with polished plate glass.
Other Outside Doors. To be 11--inch pine stock sash as shown, with wood muntins, glazed with double-thick glass.
Sliding Doors. To have astragal joint at center, and by 1+-inch friction mould all around; to slide on Richards or other approved patent hangers, on birch track.
Dwarf doors for wardrobes, cupboards, pantry, etc., to he solid paneled, 1+- inches thick.
Build cellar door of finch stock.
Doors not veneered, to be of solid pine, whitewood, cypress, or birch, to match room.
Doors in rooms having hardwood finish, to have thoroughly kiln-dried, white pine core, with solid mouldings and 1-inch veneer ing of kiln-dried wood I-inch on edges, well glued on both sides to match hardwood finish of rooms. If one of two adjacent rooms is to be painted, veneer door with hardwood of other room, on both sides.
All panels over 15 inches wide to be glued up.
Stock Doors. To be 11 inches thick, stock sizes, with plain panels and flush mouldings on both sides, 4 panels. Architect to approve sample showing quality and arrangement of panels.
Blinds. Blinds are to be hung for all windows. They are to be of cypress or of white pine, 13 inches thick. Mark each blind to correspond with mark on window-opening.