American country houses of to-day; an illustrated account of some excellent houses built and gardens planted during the last few years, showing unmistakable influence of the modern trend in ideals architectural (1915)
Howe, Samuel, 1854- · New York Architectural Book Pub. Co. P. Wenzel and M. Krakow · leaf 205
is of this that thegreatest buildings and the greatest characters of the Renaissance were cre-ated by men whom we to-day classify as architects or ambassadors. Theygloried in the commonplace! They ennobled it in their naive transforma-tion. 182 AMERICAN COUNTRY HOUSES OF TO-DAY The accompanying… … THE SKETCH PLAN OF PROPERTY IS BOTH INTERESTING AND INFORMING It shows the elliptical driveway to entrance, rising many feet above main road and gives some-thing of the treatment of Belmont Street frontage with the terrace from which so much of thecity is visilile, the ]>lanting scheme and…
Architecture, Domestic · Landscape gardening
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