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Home building. : A reliable book of facts, relative to building, living, materials, costs, at about 400 places from New York to San Francisco. Containing 42 plates and 45 original designs of buildings, with short descriptive specifications. Also with extended and elaborated specifications of materials and labor, merchandise, and where it may be produced. Tables of costs of materials at about 400 places from the Atlantic to the Pacific. Descriptions of statistics for 1876, of over 250 cities, towns and hamlets. How to reach them, their hotels, populations, healthfulness, industries, institutions, churches, newspapers, lots, farms near and values, advantages and prospects. Places of resort for health noted. Many illustrations and practical, useful suggestions