The country house; a practical manual of the planning and construction of the American country home and its surroundings (1905)
Hooper, Charles Edward, 1867- · New York : Doubleday, Page & company · leaf 163
theEnglish wooden ef-fort was but thenatural treatmentwhere wooden ceil-ings and wall panel-ling were used. Amixture of these twowould have been de-cidedly out of har-mony. There are sev-eral things to beconsidered in theplanning of the halland staircase of the Old Colonial stairs at Jamaica Plain,… … Halls and Stairways 139 important. It is not conductive to a cheerful temper to have a chance visitorenter your hall and track clay or mud across your best rug, intermingled with arivulet deposited by a wet umbrella. Ifthe said vestibule exists, he will be freerfrom slander; and if a closet or…
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