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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.
Inglenook fireplaces were a development. One side of the inglenook was a transverse wall, one of the others was the exterior wall which was pierced with a little 'fire window' that gave light. To the other side was a low partition wall with a settle to provide seating. A beam or bressumer at head height finished off the open end.
The history of architecture traces the changes in architecture through various traditions, regions, overarching stylistic trends, and dates. The beginnings of all these traditions is thought to be humans satisfying the very basic need of shelter and protection. [ 1 ]
A 1740 map of Paris. Ortelius World Map, 1570. Historical geography is the branch of geography that studies the ways in which geographic phenomena have changed over time. [1] In its modern form, it is a synthesizing discipline which shares both topical and methodological similarities with history, anthropology, ecology, geology, environmental studies, literary studies, and other fields.
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]
"Kragsyde," Manchester-by-the-Sea, Massachusetts (1883–1885, demolished 1929), Peabody and Stearns, architects. The shingle style is an American architectural style made popular by the rise of the New England school of architecture, which eschewed the highly ornamented patterns of the Eastlake style in Queen Anne architecture.
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.
Westwork of Corvey Abbey. A westwork (German: Westwerk), forepart, avant-corps or avancorpo is the monumental, west-facing entrance section ("west front" [1]) of a Carolingian, Ottonian, or Romanesque church.