A dictionary of architecture and building; biographical, historical and descriptive (1901)
Sturgis, Russell, 1836-1909 · New York, Macmillan · leaf 219
often receives the name of Town Hall, whichname is extende<l to the building which containsit. (See definition B.) A similar u.se of thehall was common in manor houses on the conti-nent of Europe, but as the need of fortifieddwellings lasted longer there, the fortresses ofthe fourteenth and…
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