Eureka Reporter | 1903-11-27 | Page 5 | Brick Versus Wooden Dwellings

brick vee woo len experience shows that the avenge averige two and one half story house with the usual fittings can be built for three or four dollars per square foot of 0 ground cohered co ered according to the quality of finish desired the che advance in ia the cost of bu iding has been peen fron from twenty to thirty per cent in the past ten beirs many architects urge their clients where they can afford it to build of briel rat rati er than wood ahe cost of brick Is relatively less legs to day than it used to be wood and swells ind burns AN wood has to be painted ind grows shabby hib with timea time brick tikes on a better tone toile and texture with mith time does not shrink and swell ind wont won t burn vines will grow on the tile buck blick wall wait repairs are ara legs less insurance rites are less the bricis brick house Is cooler in summer and much more economically heated in winter and built with a hollow wall it Is entirely free from dampness the cost of a brick over a wooden house Is ten to fifteen per cent is is a general thing but the difference Is made up in smaller bills for coal and paint good housekeeping