The half-timber house; its origin, design, modern plan, and construction; (1912)
Jackson, Allen W. (Allen Winchester), b. 1875 · New York : McBride, Nast & company · leaf 37
e of those simple expedients that 10 THE HALF-TIMBER HOUSE it takes a great man to discover and for the lack of which all sortsof inconveniences in social intercourse were endured, and humanprogress in social adjustment itself held back. The inventorof the corridor deserves a statue as much as does… … The chimney-comer was from the first the centre and heart of the English Home and kings in their palaces put up with having their suites of roomsturned into passageways. It is the same in France, Germanyand Italy. We find sumptuous suites of rooms in great houses,but all strung together in a way…
Architecture, Domestic
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