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Monday, February 25, 2013

English Homes

By the 18th century, the use of wood in English homes, owing to its dearness, seems to have been practically confined to laths, beams, floors, stairways and wainscoting. Yet in the colony of Virginia, the planter was compelled to construct every part of his house, except the chimney, of wood.

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