I possess a partiality for irregular houses, when you go up and down steps, out of one room into another and when you come upon more rooms when you think you have seen all there are, and where then is a bountiful provision of little halls & passages, and where you find older rooms in unexpected places with lattice windows and green growth pressing through them.

War of the Rebellion: Official Records. Series I. Volumes I-LIII
c. 1880 - 1898
Prepared by the late Lieut. Col. Robert N. Scott, Third U.S. Artillery
Published under the direction of the Hon. Redfield Proctor, Secretary of War, by Maj. George B. Davis, U.S.A., Mr. Leslie J. Perry, Mr. Joseph W. Kirkley, Board of Publication.
Washington: Government Printing Office. 1891.

