ROLAND HOSPITAL AT HILDESHLIM 



Hildesheim is one of the few northern German towns that have steadfastly refused to 

 grow young according to modern utilitarian methods. It has preserved its rare old tirnber 

 structure, with their lavishly carved friezes, stanchions, and cornices, and their irnpractical, 

 red-tiled gables. There is a modern, straight-front, brick-and-mortar, drably practical house 

 beside the Roland Hospital, and the comparison between the old and the new thus afforded 

 is the best excuse for Hildesheim's conservatism. 



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