American renaissance; a review of domestic architecture (1904)
Dow, Joy Wheeler · New York, W. T. Comstock · leaf 264
ting virtues. The secretof the Colonial revival was the same inherent vitalspark that had previously commended the Queen Annearchitecture, only the Colonial houses possessed it to afar greater degree. For it was not only English his-tory, always intimately associated with our own, thatthey… … v./^>^ 129 American Renaissance influenced by it as by a magnet; and I regret that thecleverest architects to-day are still working upon thefallacious formula of symmetry, restfulness and goodproportion while they often garble American historywith much interpolated foreign material and…
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