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stepped-back chimney

 
Architecture: stepped-back chimney

An exterior brick chimney, rectangular in cross section, sufficiently wide at the level of the hearth to enclose a large fireplace on the interior, and then of decreasing width, in number of steps, with increasing chimney height.

stepped-back chimney


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