How to know architecture : the human elements in the evolution of styles (1914)
Wallis, Frank Edwin, 1862-1929 · New York : Harper and Brothers · leaf 303
largeopenings, the only way of warming and cooking. Theywere panelled simply, and had always a plain shelf forcandlesticks and the flint and steel box. In these fireplaces was once common an interestingandiron called the Hessian soldier. This was castduring the heat of the Revolution and supplied… … FIG. 108—CHURCH AT SALEM, MASS. THE GEORGIAN IN AMERICA This period seems to represent to most of us the idealof homely comfort and the charm of the open fire on thehearthstone, the geographical centre of human emotions.I suppose the love of the early architecture of this countryis so closely…
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