How to know architecture : the human elements in the evolution of styles (1914)
Wallis, Frank Edwin, 1862-1929 · New York : Harper and Brothers · leaf 301
an individual had no intention of staying inthis new France, while the English, dragged into a war19 277 HOW TO KNOW ARCHITECTURE because of the general European turmoil, were stayers tothe last degree. They did not, therefore, impress themselves on the ar-chitecture of the period, as they were… … FIG. 107—A GAMBREL ROOF AT NEWPORT, R. I. building, after the log-cabin period had passed, in a sim-ple and purely domestic fashion. This might properly becalled the gambrel-roof period (gambrel is from the oldFrench gambe, or leg, the obtuse angle of the roof re-sembling the leg with the…
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