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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 98

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Jacobean houses were planned with great formality of bal-anced parts, and the later Georgian work was often veryfree, and frankly unbalanced. What is true of the plan is equally true of materials, al-ways bearing in mind that what is honest and straightfor-ward in construction is more likely to… … English precedent does not necessarily enforce rigid limits. There are some features here that suggest the transplanting of the tj^pe to American soil

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