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 211
t. Alternating scjuares ofblack and white marble are in themselves an essay on gentility. It is byno means grand f)r forbidding, for, as the view shows, across its checkeredcountenance rugs extend a wealth of color. The drawing-room is the big room of the house. It nms east and west,opening… … 188 MR. C. H. MAC DONALDS HOMK. SOI TIIAMllON. 1.. I. 18!) dish l)n)\vn and tlu windows aw draped witli taffeta of a eolor not unliketlie red of the tomato or ohl-rose. Relieving- tlie forniahty of the |)anelhn<r,mirrors are hun<i. the frames of whieh are (liversitie<l in outhne and very…
Architecture, Domestic · Landscape gardening
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