A dictionary of architecture and building : biographical, historical, and descriptive (1902)
Sturgis, Russell, 1836-1909 · New York : The Macmillan company · leaf 462
■7:^.L. V of an American one. Figure 9 shows the Rus-sian method of prei)aring the end of the log,which is done before the building is begun.Russian log houses sometimes reached huge pro-portions, as in the noted Baranoff Castle thatformerly stood at Sitka. Building of this kind is the natural… … dant. Vitruvius (Book II., Ch. 1) mentionsthem as having been in use in the Caucasus. InRussia, with the more slowly developing physicalcivilization of thecountry, such structures have . lingered later, andhave received asomewhat deco-rative treatment,in connection withwhich it is wellto study the…
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