The Poor Man's Home, and Rich Man's Palace: Or, the Application of the Gravel Wall Cement to the Purposes of Building (Classic Reprint)

Excerpt from The Poor Man's Home, and Rich Man's Palace: Or, the Application of the Gravel Wall Cement to the Purposes of Building

MY residence is in the pleasant village of Spring Valley, Greene county, Ohio, situated on the Little Mi ami Railroad, seven miles south of Xenia. Early last spring, my dwelling-house was destroyed by fire; and as I witnessed the appalling ravages of the devouring element, my mind received the indelible impress, never to rebuild with a material that could be licked up by the voracious flames, as I then witnessed in the case before me.

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