House Garden 
A THATCHED HOUSE 
AUER, TYROL 
Schloss T r o s t b U r g, 
Reifenstein, or Ried, for 
the beautiful develop¬ 
ments of which in mod¬ 
ern times a more genial 
state of society must be 
thanked. The addition 
of ornament to the 
erker , its attenuation 
and its variety of form 
constitutes a feature of 
his house which it is the 
ambition of the Tyroler 
to possess ; and as soon 
as it is attained, con- 
structural elaboration 
upon his building comes 
to an end. 
Constructural elabo¬ 
ration is, properly 
speaking, but little 
attempted. Beyond 
the purely utilitarian 
devices of balconies and 
roofs, — arrangements 
picturesque enough in 
themselves—the en¬ 
richment of the house is 
accomplished by means 
of decorating flat sur¬ 
faces with color or else 
by means ot a variety in 
the plastered roughcast. 
This mode of decora¬ 
tion as it has developed 
at the hands of the 
Tyrolian, can be espe¬ 
cially well seen upon an 
old thatched house at 
Auer. We can imagine, 
too, the love for a surface 
a door at innsbruck ornamentation which 
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