Notes and sketches of an architect taken during a journey in the northwest of Europe; (1877)
Narjoux, Félix, Peto, John Frederick, 1854-1907 · Boston, J. R. Osgood · leaf 93
abitant goes tobusiness, leaves his dwelling, carefully closing the door. Thechildren go to school without noise, without any hurry or dis- 88 HOLLAND. turbance. The servants and housewives, armed with largebrooms and gigantic sponges, wash, rub, and polish the fronts ofthe houses, the footpaths,… … Fig. 45. — Houses in one of the Streets of Amsterdam. Holland produces scarcely any building materials, except mud.But this, dried and burnt, becomes brick, and thus forms theconstituent element of every structure. These bricks are not laid, as in some countries, with studiedcare, and with varied…
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