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Town House: The town house was one of those raided by the Indian chief. King Philip, son of Massasoit, in his war with the colonists (1675). His council lodge occupied a field now within the town house. Still standing is the first frame house in the community, built by the Thatcher family in 1703 as quarters for the slaves who cut the logs for their sawmill. The town house was settled in 1673. Originally a part of Abington, it was incorporated as a separate town house in 1874. Pop. 13,119.
Church) and the 15th century Altes Rathaus (Old town house Hall) have been restored. The Leine flows past remnants of the medieval town house walls and past the 17th century Leine castle, restored as the state parliament. The modern commercial heart of the city and the opera house lie in an area developed in the 19th century between the medieval town house and the main railway station.
Hannover is a green city; a belt of open land along the Leine River separates the Linden industrial quarter, an independent town house until 1920, from the main part of the city.
There are also notable examples of with an atrium (an interior court surrounded 1$ rooms). Some of these are of relatively ancie construction, such as the House with the Wood Partition, the Samnite House, and the House -5^51 Neptune and Amphitrite. Of unusual design £jt(,er the great villas in the southern part of the ci including the House of Argo, the House of t Hostelry, the House of the Mosaic Atrium, a the House of the Deer. In these houses the t ditional plan is modified. The peristilia (cole naded courtyards), the gardens, reception haj and other rooms were oriented toward the sot in order to take advantage of the view towa the sea. |
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