Architecture
A window that looks into another room. Follow the daylight and the floor plan starts to make sense.
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How did daylight reach the middle of an old house?
A staircase on the Ohio River, a landing in Washington, D.C., and a New York City tenement reveal who got a share of the daylight.
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Why leave a hole in a perfectly good row house?
The pantry window faced another wall of the same house. A floor plan from Washington, D.C., shows why that narrow gap was worth the space.
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Why put a window above a door?
Two rooms, two old photographs, and a small piece of glass that could change what happened on either side of a closed door.