Architectural styles for country houses: the characteristics and merits of various types of architecture as set forth by enthusiastic advocates (1912)
Saylor, Henry H. (Henry Hodgman), b. 1880 · New York, McBride, Nast & Company · leaf 145
The origin of this roof has been long a subject for dis-pute. It is purely an American development, without anyEuropean precedent, and its use must have arisen from some 90 ARCHITECTURAL STYLES FOR COUNTRY HOUSES condition peculiar to this country. I believe this is to befound in the fact that… … First floor plan, the home of St. G. Barber, Englewood, X. J.Aymar Embury, II, architect get the rooms in the second story as large as possible, theroof was given a wider overhang and sloped very steeply.But, since continuing the steep roof slopes on either sideof the house up to their intersection…
Architecture, Domestic
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