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DWELLINGS.
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bordering on Lake Mälaren. There is for instance Eriksberg in Södermanland,
Skokloster in Uppland, and Tidö in Västmanland, the latter built by Axel
Oxenstierna; all of these are preserved to the present day substantially in their
original state.
During the 18th century castles still continued to be erected, thougli in
number and importance they cannot compare with those of the 17th century.
These two centuries, however, have combined to creatc the architecture of the
present-day type of Swedish manor-house.
Trolleholm Castle in Skåne.
Recent times have brought about great changes in the building of
dwellings in the rural districts. In former periods the big manor-houses
kept up the tradition of good and substantial types of dwellings in the
country. But with the industrial revolution in the middle of the 19th
century and the advent of railways, the new-fangled architecture of the
towns (the summer villa of the town-dweller) has set the fashion also in
rural parts; the joiner’s workshops with their wretched villas built to
pattern have exercised a very pernicious influence, which the
communities that have grown up around the stations have spread to many places
far into the country. The simple solid construction is being ousted by
12—133179. Sweden I.
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