Kelsey, Albert, 1870-1950, Architectural League of America · Philadelphia : Architectural Annual · leaf 151
ms right as it is. This freedom is inspiriting, and shows that architecture is not a dead art after all ; that without affectation a man can give to what he does his personality, so that the same spirit is throughout his work, and it is different from that done in past times. The buildings with… … Pennsylvania farmhouses, or the first of New England, but generally with an English charac- ter, after all, not far different. In planning they are interesting in the way they are adapted to their sites and to the compositions desired, and in their freedom from undue conventionality. Axes are never…
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