Coleman, Oliver · New York, Fox Duffield & Company · leaf 17
CHAPTER I THE HALL In early stages of the social growth, or in the dwellings of the very poor,the house is but one room, and this, answering for all the simple purposes of alowly life, is kitchen, dining room and sleeping place in one. Gradually theowner, as he reaches up, adds on at first a room… … has built a modern house, and what was once his all is now an ante-room, aconnecting link between the other rooms—a hall. In feudal times this was,we know, the one apartment that was common ground. In the great hallof his walled-in castle the baron ate, and entertained his guests; here thewandering…
Architecture, Domestic
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