Tyrolese Architecture 
esthetic satisfaction in a 
level or gently undulat¬ 
ing landscape,would be 
false and valueless here. 
Likewise is the graceful 
pediment and colon¬ 
nade out of place where 
they cannot be related 
to a horizontal earth. 
Such amenities ot 
chitectural design 
unrealized, and 
Tyrolese houses 
unstudied, stern 
mien and heavy 
their massing, it 
indeed clumsy. 
Little attempt 
made to provide a set¬ 
ting for the buildings, 
not even by the sim¬ 
plest of base courses; 
and any system of ter¬ 
racing, either in earth 
or stone, was probably far too expensive for 
the average Tyrolese householder to strive for. 
In the country districts, dooryards and small 
kitchen-gardens, closely connected with the 
house, serve to heighten the cheerfulness 
ot the home. A hazel-tree is planted beside 
ar- 
are 
the 
are 
in 
in 
not 
ON THE ROAD FROM INNSBRUCK TO HALL 
HOUSE AT CORTINA, IN THE DOLOMITES 
the entrance door in the belief that it protects 
the house from lightning; and if it be upon 
the open roadside, a few yards distant a shady 
copse provides a retreat from the house. 
Windows are invariably casements, and the 
sash in opening battle with a mass of vines 
reaching from ground to 
roof and half-hiding a 
votive panel set within 
a tiny niche in the wall. 
Young tendrils creep 
around a picture of the 
Madonna fastened or 
painted upon the wall, 
and they join with the 
swinging garlands o t 
potted plants arrayed 
upon the window-sills. 
So apparent is the 
want of symmetry that 
one is led to suppose it 
to be a painful shock for 
a Tyroler to enter his 
home by a door which 
was in the center of his 
house. He serenely 
builds his roof so that 
the peak of the gable is 
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