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An INGLENOOK or CHIMNEY CORNER is a recess that adjoins a fireplace. The word
comes from "ingle", an old Scots word for a domestic fire (derived from the
Gaelic _aingeal_), and "nook".[1][2]
The inglenook originated as a partially enclosed hearth area, appended to a
larger room. The hearth was used for cooking, and its enclosing alcove became
a natural place for people seeking warmth to gather. With changes in building
design, kitchens became separate rooms, while inglenooks were retained in the
living space as intimate warming places, subsidiary spaces within larger
rooms.<ref name=toh1>[last=Holt]
Inglenooks were prominent features of shingle style architecture and
characteristic of Arts and Crafts architecture but began to disappear with the
advent of central heating.<ref name=toh1/><ref name=historic>[title=What Was
the Arts and Crafts Movement?] Prominent American architects who employed the
feature included Greene and Greene, Henry Hobson Richardson, and Frank Lloyd
Wright. British architect Richard Norman Shaw significantly influenced
Richardson.<ref name=ohj1>[last=Flaherty]
** See also
- Keeping room
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