Haddon Hall: Being Notes on Its Architecture and History, for the Use of Visitors (Classic Reprint) - Softcover

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Haddon Hall has been so often and so ably described, that I feel some explanation is necessary for the existence of this little book. It has not been my intention in any way to write a guide book to Haddon Hall. That work has been done many times over, and there is no idea in my mind of doing over again what others have done so well before. But there has always appeared to me to be a distinct want for a book which shall not only describe the building as it stands today, or give long accounts of the noble families who have lived there, but shall try and render intelligible to the ordinary tourist the significance of the building as a building, tracing its history in its stones. The existing guide-books give the approximate dates of difierent parts of this mansion, but these are scattered about at random, and in such a way as to bewilder and puzzle the tourist who has no very great knowledge of architecture. The remarks, too, of the cicerone, as one is conducted through the building, are apt to bewilder rather than enlighten the understanding of an enquiring tourist visiting the Hall for the first time. Why, for instance, should there exist a Dining Room, when we have just been shown where the lords of Haddon used to sit and eat at the dais in the Great Hall? That is a question that used to puzzle me, and must puzzle many to-day.

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