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House & Garden 
Coutant 
TRADITION and the HALF TIMBERED HOUSE 
Behind the half timbered house stand several centuri s of tradition. It begins with the hut of wattles and 
daub, passes to the medieval house in which timber was required to buttress up the second stories, and develops 
into the later city homes that reached out over the street by a succession of over-hanging stories. The modern 
example shown here has remnants of each of these developments. The architect was Walter McQuade 
