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Subject: Re: [OM] OT: A Critical Review of French Architecture
From: "philippe.amard" <philippe.amard@xxxxxx>
Date: Sat, 18 Aug 2012 23:02:28 +0200
Le 18 août 12 à 21:13, Chris Trask a écrit :

>>
>> I wonder if the reviewer had ever seen a blockhouse.  That set of
> buildings
>> looks pretty fine to me.
>>
>> I couldn't afford to heat the place, though :-)
>>
>
>    You'd be surprised.  East of State College, PA there is an 18th/ 
> 19th
> century roadhouse.  It is two stories, the second floor being an open
> ballroom floor, with a slate roof and three-foot thick walls made of  
> granite
> blocks.  There is a fireplace on the ground floor and I was told that
> keeping a moderate fire in it through the winter kept the place  
> comfortably
> warm.
>

latitude svp
and
by which century's standards
if I may ask?

;-)

PA


> Chris
>
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