“Ridge-dormers have many other advantages. In winter, when closed… it is nature's own method of lighting. Ridge-dormers greatly reduce the height of the building; because bringing into use space heretofore wasted, the eaves may be correspondingly lowered.”

—  Ernest Flagg

Source: Small Houses: Their Economic Design and Construction (1922), Ch. III

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