Ferree, Barr, 1862-1924 · New York, Munn and Company · leaf 152
himselfand his friends. Biltmore suggests,but does not reproduce,historic models. It em-ploys historic ideas andfamiliar motifs, but itemploys them, as thegreat architects of thegreat periods of archi-tecture have done, as themodels and tools athand. Just as each^Gothicchurch and each Renais-sance… … [129] AMERICAN ESTATES AND GARDENS one, and most of all to the designers of those times, so here the most beautiful ideas areemployed, but employed afresh and in a new way. The open stairway at Biltmore recalls, as it was doubtless intended to recall, the greatstair at Blois; luit it recalls it…
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