Jasper County Democrat, Volume 19, Number 97, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 3 March 1917 — Chimney Comparatively New. [ARTICLE]

Chimney Comparatively New.

The chimney is something that Is relatively new in architecture. Many of the old castles and other buildings of Europe which were constructed before the fifteenth century have no chimneys. In some of them a flue leads from the back and above, the fireplace through the wall to the outer air. It was somewhere about the thirteenth century that in certain buildings the masons began to run the flue to the top of the building, but the chimneys of that, period had openings in the side, the fop being roofed over. It was about the fifteenth century that' masons began to build chimneys that extended above the roof of the house and to leave the top of the chimney uncovered.— Washington Star.