The house of logs from which the bark had been peeled was a mark of gentility and a second story was a luxury, although the occupant might have to reach his chamber under the roof-poles by ascending steps on the outside, or by climbing up a perpendicular ladder within the house. A dwelling of logs hewn and squared with the broad axe and adze was the highest of the kind. But about 1635 a class of immigrants began to arrive who gave a new character to the Hudson region. They were Hollanders and Huguenots, who came with large amounts of ready money to occupy vast grants of land, most of which had manorial rights attached to them. With their large families and troops of servants, white and black, they of necessity erected large and comfortable mansions on the plan of those from which they had taken their departure in the Fatherland. " In New York and the region about the Hudson River," wrote Rev. Edward Eggleston, " the foundation form of the early dwelling was the Dutch house built with its gable to the street. The top of the gable wall was notched into corbel steps.

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