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The rare beau¬ 
ty of a well de¬ 
signed fireplace 
depends upon 
the detail of its 
mouldings 
If You Are Going to Build 
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British Museum today, and that Wedg¬ 
wood, the famous potter, made panels 
for the chimney breasts of his day. 
Here in America we have created one 
type of fireplace, the Colonial, with its 
many variations and also with its debt 
to the classic period decoration in Eng¬ 
land. Of course, in our very simple 
early settler homes, we have the splen¬ 
did old brick fireplaces with the huge 
hearth and seats inside the chimney 
and beautiful wrought iron fittings, and 
vast oak lintel, covered with pewter 
or Lowestoft or the memorial china 
celebrating historical events. Today we 
build so many period houses with which 
our fireplaces must be in harmony; 
Tudor, French, Italian with its beau¬ 
tiful fluted pillars, Colonial; but few 
people demand creative work in the 
planning of their fireplaces, but few ex¬ 
pect anything more than a modified in¬ 
teresting “period” reproduction. 
But we do demand well built chim¬ 
neys today, capacious, permanent, and 
practical. A builder is more or less 
judged by the fact that his “chimney 
will draw”. Apparently there is no de¬ 
pendable recipe for this, so much de¬ 
pends upon the location - of the house, 
the force and directions of the winds, 
the size of the fireplace in relation to the 
draught and the actual construction of 
the interior of the chimney. The archi-l 
tect and builder have got to study far 
afield for all the conditions that will 
make for a good fireplace and chimney; 
the material construction alone is not 
enough. Of course today we often addi 
decorative hoods and we plan our chim-i 
neys with controlling dampers, with re¬ 
volving caps on the turrets; but the big 
responsibility still dwells with the 
builder. He must work a fresh miracle | 
with every chimney he builds, and as a 
rule he does. 
Cement has entered very largely into 
the building of picturesque fireplaces 
today but the stone house still demands 
the stone fireplace, and a richer archi¬ 
tectural detail than the modern va- 1 
riegated brick fireplace it would be hard 
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This type of fireplace with a stone hood, 
reminiscent of both Italy and Normandy, 
is set effectively with a panel of rough 
plaster. Lawrence F. Peck, architect 
