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Title: The Boston Cooking School magazine of culinary science and domestic economics
Year: 1896 (1890s)
Authors: Hill, Janet McKenzie, 1852-1933, ed Boston Cooking School (Boston, Mass.)
Subjects: Home economics Cooking
Publisher: Boston : Boston Cooking-School Magazine
Contributing Library: Boston Public Library
Digitizing Sponsor: Boston Public Library

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Hall way in the Daniel Low House Old New England Hallways By Mary H. Northend IN feudal times the baronial hallwas a spacious, lofty apartment,forbidding and grim. The fur-nishings were scanty, although richand;massive, as is seen in the countryseats of merry England to-day, wherea fire of huge logs was kept blazing inthe cavernous depths of an immensefireplace, flickering on the walls andcasting light into the dim corners of theroom. Home life was centred aroundthis cheery fire, and here, after a suc- cessful hunt, sat the old baron, sur-rounded by his hounds, and exhibitingthe trophies of the chase. In comparison with these spaciousapartments the hallways in colonialdays were small and contracted.Sometimes they formed a division linethrough the centre of the house, andopened on either side into large rooms.The staircase with low treads rose fromthe farther end, and was often mostelaborate in carving of balusters and 460 The Boston Cooking-School Magazine
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Hallway in Arthur W. Wests House newel posts. The colonial staircasetakes an easy lead among those ofmodern days, and is copied into twen-tieth century homes by the up-to-datearchitect. This is particularly true ofthose found in Salem, Mass., many ofwhich open at the rear into the dear,old-fashioned gardens of our grandamestime. The hall of to-day and that of yes-terday differ in that the former is oftenlarge and wide,—a feature of the home,so arranged that doors are done awaywith and archways and framed door-ways connect it with the living-roomsin the house. Small and contracted,the hallway of ye olden times gavepractically no chance for tasteful deco-ration, as does the present day one, soartistic in effect that one is impressedwith its attractiveness. In many houses the hall is treatedin a handsome manner, following thecolonial style, with paneled walls fromfloor to ceiling. Dignity is added bymassive, moulded beams overhead, while the woodwork is treated withmany coats of paint,

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