SB: Off-topic pics

[Mark Piepkorn <duckchow@greenbuilder.com>]

Not SB, but perhaps inspiring for SBers.

Posted photos include a clever & simple stone window-sill / kitchen-sink 
which drains to the outside... a large vaulted root cellar / basement made 
of plastered stone... a quick look at "paling" (which I've also seen 
described as "Dutch biscuits," which is basically straw-clay wrapped around 
sticks or boards and placed in a wall or between ceiling joists)... a 
surprising second-floor arched hallway formed by fireplace chimneys on 
either side merging into one flue... and a "squirrel-tail" brick oven - the 
likes of which I've never seen - set in the back of a large open hearth.

The Schifferstadt Architectural Museum is a 1756 German farm house in 
Frederick, Maryland, with two-and-a-half- foot-thick stone walls on a 
bedrock foundation, and a later brick addition. From the museum's 
literature: "The inclination [of German colonials] was to overbuild to 
reduce the expectations of the materials and prolong their endurance. It is 
difficult to find fault with an approach that produced a structure now 
entering its third century."

I took pictures. Of course.
http://www.potkettleblack.com/misc/schifferstadt1.html



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