House & Garden 
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and openingon the inner court. Usually this 
hall was built on the side of the house so that 
the stairs and all the rooms were located on 
the same side of the passage. Of these once 
such famous interiors with their carved oaken 
walls and great chimney-pieces very little 
remains. Whole apartments have been taken 
up bodily and removed to different museums, 
and only very rarely is such a room to be 
found in a house occupied at the present 
day. Of the period of Louis XIV and 
A DOORWAY IN HAARLEM 
stone, the steps of the gable being finished 
with the same stone. The windows were 
large, the principal lines of the sash forming 
a cross, and the small panes were set in lead. 
Only a few examples in good condition still 
exist. The front door opened into a large 
square apartment called the voorhuis or ves¬ 
tibule. This was continued by a long marble 
hall extending the whole length of the house 
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