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An unusual fireplace, found in the New 
York City home of Clayton Sedgwick 
Cooper, consists of a black plaster chim¬ 
ney breast with a bronze insert. Dwight 
James Baum, architect 
The Tudor atmosphere is crystalized in 
the stone surrounds and paneling of this 
fireplace in the home of Leland H. Ross, 
Madison, N. J. F. G. Behr and 0. 
B. Smith, architects 
The Elizabethan paneling and furniture 
in this bedroom of an English country 
house are fittingly accompanied by a 
high stone fireplace. Richardson & Gill, 
decorators 
Carved wood decorations in the manner 
of Grinling Gibbons surround the over¬ 
mantel panel in one of the rooms of the 
home of Leland H. Ross at Madison, 
N. J. 
Some magnificent fireplaces were built 
with these hoods in old English houses, 
but the finest of them could not equal 
the hooded hearths still to be found in 
France, at Langeais, Blois and other 
chateaux in the Valley of the Loire. 
Although the beginning of the use of 
recessed chimneys carrying the hearth 
back in the wall, was really a develop¬ 
ment of the 15th Century, they were not 
entirely unknown in the 12th Century. 
When drawn back in the wall in this 
fashion, they were nearly always of stone 
with a stone lintel and stone pillars at 
the sides. When a large enough stone 
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