Hamlin, A. D. F. (Alfred Dwight Foster), 1855-1926 · New York [etc.] Longmans, Green, and co. · leaf 248
of rooms lightedby clustered, pointed-arched windows, constituted the com- GOTHIC ARCHITECTURE IN FRANCE. 215 mon type. The street front was usually gabled and theroof steep. In the fourteenth or fifteenth century half-timbered construction began to supersede stone for townhouses, as it permitted… … FIG. 127. — HOrSH OF JACQUES CCEfR, BOIRGF-S. (After Viollet-Ie-Duc.) nettes ; the horizontal sills, bracketed out over the street,were richly moulded ; picturesque dormers broke the sky-line, and the masonry filling between the beams was fre-quently faced with enamelled tiles. The more…
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