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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 87

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irst of these plans. One of the mostprominent of contemporary English architects in writing of thisplan says, The site was quite without any sense of privacy, inthe residential part of the town. An attempt has been made toremedy this in tlie irregular form of building and the arched entryto the… … ^»r T i r -Sit.. The plan of a modern English home, selected at random, illustrating theEnglishmans insistence upon seclusion between him and the street he would infallibly have tried to getback into things by building a great piazza across the entirefront of the house. But this very typical…

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