If roofs need relaying, where the building is good, slate roofs may be put on over the old shingles to good advantage, using longer nails than usual to secure the slate.

If the building is old-fashioned, a marked improvement can be made by taking off the roof and giving it greater pitch, running up the chimneys and giving them a graceful finish; and putting in a front gable with neat tracery and brackets. This plan can be carried out when a new roof becomes necessary, and its effect upon the general appearance of the building will be excellent, and if iron cresting is put on, so much the better.

Fig. 29.

J. HESS, Architect.

Fig. 27.