An architectural monograph on the Boston post road, (1920)
Pindar, Peter Augustus · [Saint Paul, White pine bureau] · leaf 5
original design, so that theseold houses depended for their beauty upon twothings only: the proportion of a very simple mass, and the excellence of the sparingly em-plo>ed detail in cornices, doorways and win-dows. Pilasters or engaged columns were some-times used to decorate the principal… … motives. It IStonishing that as-the THE JESSUP HOUSE, designers could ob-tain any variety inappearance, andthat they were ableto make the housesso uniformly lovely.Most modern archi-tects would be putto it were the_\com-pelled to workwithin such narrowlimits and with sofew opportunities tointroduce…
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