A home for all or The gravel wall and octagon mode of building new, cheap, convenient, superior and adapted to rich and poor

Showing the superiority of this gravel concrete over brick, stone, and frame houses; manner of making and depositing it; its cost; outside finish; clay houses; defects in small, low, long-winged, and cottage houses; the greater capacity, beauty, compactness, and utility of octagon houses; different plans; the author's residence; green and ice houses; filters; grounds; shrubbery; fruits and their culture; roofing; school-houses and churches; barns and out buildings; board and plank walls; the working-man's dwellings, etc., etc

Stereotyped edition: revised and enlarged.