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Inglenook in the Blue Bedroom of Stan Hywet Hall, Summit County, Ohio. An inglenook or chimney corner is a recess that adjoins a fireplace. The word comes from "ingle", an old Scots word for a domestic fire (derived from the Gaelic aingeal), and "nook". [1] [2] The inglenook originated as a partially enclosed hearth area, appended to a larger room.
About 1580 a central chimney was inserted, an upper floor put in the central two bays where the hall was and the house was reroofed with a Horsham Slab stone roof. The roof weighs approximately 16 tons [4] The inglenook fireplaces are made of local stone and have curves on the side where knives have been sharpened. The original pointed doorway ...
Inglenook in the 19th century. The winery was founded in 1879 by a Finnish Sea Captain Gustave Niebaum.Niebaum's employee Hamden McIntyre was not an architect but he designed gravity flow wineries for Inglenook and Far Niente along with other wineries of the decade. [1]
Architect Frederick G. Scheibler Jr. (Scheibler portrait courtesy of Carnegie Mellon University Architecture Archives) Old Heidelberg Apartments (1905) Minnetonka Building, Shadyside, 2021-08-25, 04 Highland Towers Apartments (1913) Starr house (1927) Frederick Gustavus Scheibler Jr. (May 12, 1872 – June 15, 1958) was an American architect.
This list of house styles lists styles of vernacular architecture – i.e., outside any academic tradition – used in the design of houses. African
Athelhampton House - built 1493–1550, early in the period Leeds Castle, reign of Henry VIII Hardwick Hall, Elizabethan prodigy house. The Tudor architectural style is the final development of medieval architecture in England and Wales, during the Tudor period (1485–1603) and even beyond, and also the tentative introduction of Renaissance architecture to Britain.
Inside the house is an inglenook and a bressumer. [15] II: ... Hughes, John; Price, James (2012), The Architecture of Sharpe, Paley and Austin, Swindon: English ...
Its exterior features a heavy eave cornice, prominent chimney stacks, and projecting facade pavilions while its interior reflects both Colonial Revival and Arts and Crafts styles of architecture. [2] It follows an American vernacular style, although it was called an English manor when built, and conveys the importance of fraternities to the ...