>>>>>It was a chinked-log structure with large rooms on both sides of a breezeway.<<<<<
Not breezeway, dogtrot. Right?
That's the way old houses were built. First a one room house, with the kitchen outside, then two with a dogtrot in the middle, end to end, so they could leave both doors open and get a crossbreeze. They copied it from the Indians.
The kitchen outside was obligatory, due to heat. Yankees (which includes Westerners) can't imagine what it is to live someplace where it is hot most of the year. You can put clothes on, you can light a fire, when it is cold, but when it is hot, there is a limit to what you can take off, and until there was air conditioning, that was it. |
