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American renaissance; a review of domestic architecture (1904)

Dow, Joy Wheeler · New York, W. T. Comstock · leaf 228

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or, at last, there was enough to go round—yes, more than enough; and with their surplus fundsmounting higher and higher, these alarmingly prosper-#ous people were much addicted to the erection ofhouses with coopilows. In the books of published designs which circulatedat the period, dwelling-houses… … Reign of Terror—Its Negative Value see any actual resemblance. The house with the cupolain America was, in effect, a newly-invented style ofarchitecture of its era, no doubt suggested by thesumptuous villas of the Italian Renaissance, since thevhave always suggested prodigious opulence, and…

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