This "home with or without a dining room" is a precursor to repurposing unused rooms in your house.  As Bob Vila said in "Why 7 Families Ditched the Dining Room," "Formal dining rooms are starting to go the way of the formal living room—out of service.  While many homes have dining rooms, the square footage devoted to them often isn't justified by the little use most families get out of them."  Our illustration is from Popular Mechanics, 1931.

INSTRUCTIONS: Click to change the season at Herbert Hoover's home at Stanford.

From the Annual Report of the Board of Regents of the Smithsonian Institution, 1872.

INSTRUCTIONS: Click to bring on the night.

INSTRUCTIONS: Click to see the larger, flagless version.

"Menu, The House, San Francisco," date unknown.

One of the only differences between a roulette table and a cathedral is where the croupier sits.  We recall that "Religion is a gamble" (Michael Demers, Becoming Adam) and "Gambling is a religion" (Jason Mandryk, Operation World), that "The casino is a church" (Donald Patrick Redheffer, Streams of Thought) and "The church is a gambling house" (Hiley H. Ward, Understanding Reality Religion), that "Faith is a gamble" (Lucian Phoenix-Wolf, The Spiritual Truth Series) and "Gambling requires faith" (Mike Wojniaj, "Listen to Your Heart").  

"Architecture doubles as atmosphere" (Interiors magazine, 1968).  This accidental double exposure is from C. W. Allen's WWII album, scanned by the San Diego Air and Space Museum Archive.

From Harper's Monthly, 1922.

From Life and Death or The Creeping Shadow by D. Lambden Flemming, 1873.

From Thrilling stories of the Great War on Land and Sea, in the Air, Under the Water, 1915.

You've heard it said that people who live in glass houses shouldn't throw stones, but—as we see in this plan of the original Glass House, they can safely throw lumps of coal.  (Note the "Coal Hole" door facing the river.)  From Local Collections; or Records of Remarkable Events Connected with the Borough of Gateshead, 1837-1839.