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I forgot to finish the history of the sleeping porch...remember, this was before air conditioning. The porch, with all the open windows, allowed more breezes to blow through than in one's room. We have several homes in town, built in the 1890s, that have sleeping porches. In the summer, the family slept out there on, for example, day beds or hammocks. In the winter or cooler weather, they slept in beds inside the house.
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