Excerpt from Seventy-Fifth Anniversary Series: Siam and Laos<br><br>The Governor (chow Luang or Great Prince), has just completed his beautiful resi dence at Nan. He has been nearly ten years in building it. It is situated near the centre of the city, built of brick, the walls and out side plastered with cement with a hard finish. It is two stories high. The main part is about 40x120 feet, with two Wings 40x50 each. The lower floor is intended for business offices and store rooms. Besides the inner stair ways, two commodious stairways upon the outside give ascent to the ante-chamber 4ox4o. Opening from this is the Hall of Audience 40x60 with a spacious portico be yond. The sleeping apartments occupy the two wings. Heavy awnings projecting over the windows are ornamental and protect from our tropical sun.<br><br>Great attention is given to the finishing of the gables. As the Ox is recognized as the tutelar Spirit of Nan, it is depicted in the center with two dragons on either side. Other gables are finished with fine scroll work in teak. The roof is in native style of tiered roofs, with the customary huge gilded hornrising above each gable, the effect being very pleasing.<br><br>About the Publisher<br><br>Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com<br><br>This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.