A dictionary of architecture and building; biographical, historical and descriptive (1901)
Sturgis, Russell, 1836-1909 · New York, Macmillan · leaf 267
ingthe front buildings with the rear ones; themain difference being tliat, as here the houses built ag-ainst the inner face of the cityall, the main rooms are ligiitwl only or•liiefly from the court, to which, there-fore, special pains was given to make itsunny and airj. (See, in addition tothe… … Fio. 8.The Gothic forms and details throanhout the The back build-ing, wliich took its light only from the court inmost instances, was still sufficiently open andairy to be entirely pleasant. Even at this dayone can hire a room in a German town house ofthe fourteenth century with no windows…
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