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 188
1 ^ : THE NORTHERN TRADITION 119 cornice and perhaps adopting a more orderly arrangementof windows, but otherwise the type is little altered. Then why not this for the answer to the question — thisnameless basic type which one writer calls the English Tra- … A house at Woodmere, L. I.Charles Barton Keen, architect. dition, though it was the tradition equally of Scotland, ofIreland, of the American colonies and, it seems, most north-ern countries? Its characteristics are its roof-pitch, itsgables (for gables are simpler than hipped roofs framed toslope…
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