American renaissance; a review of domestic architecture (1904)
Dow, Joy Wheeler · New York, W. T. Comstock · leaf 304
nonce, that oneis M. Pierre Lescot, M. Claude Perrault or M. Gabriel,and that the king or some grand seigneur of the realmhas commanded ones services for the purpose. As inthe elevation of the house for Mrs. H. at Morristown(see Plate LXXVIII) I made believe to myself thatthe mediiEval tour w^as… … Adaptation quished the portcullis, leaving its yawning pocketsto be disposed of. Commercialism said wall themup, not I. It would be a pity to lose a particle ot thethirteenth century atmosphere that consents to linger.So I decided upon a bold innovation as the privilegeof adaptation. I could anchor…
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