Heimatstil is an architectural style of the second half of the nineteenth and first half of the twentieth century, a historicist tendency characterized by wood on the facade and sculpted beams connected by protruding or rusticated stone.
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1. Wikipedia: Heimatstil
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The Heimatstil is an architectural style of the second half of the nineteenth century and the first half of the twentieth referring to the historicist tendencies which one encounters in the German-speaking countries, including Switzerland (the architecture of chalets), but also in Victorian England and even in the north and eastern parts of France, as well as Belgium and Flanders.
Intro, sentence 1, region clause
the historicist tendencies which one encounters in the German-speaking countries
History, paragraph 2
the point of origin for the style can be traced to the 1873 Vienna World's Fair
In Group: Nineteenth-Century Revival Styles of Europe, Lead paragraph
The Heimatstil is an architectural style of the second half of the nineteenth century and the first half of the twentieth referring to the historicist tendencies which one encounters in the German-speaking countries, including Switzerland (the architecture of chalets), but also in Victorian England
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