The architecture of country houses : including designs for cottages, farm houses, and villas, with remarks on interiors, furniture, and the best modes of warming and ventilating (1851)
Downing, A. J. (Andrew Jackson), 1815-1852, Anderson, Alexander, 1775-1870 · New York : D. Appleton & Company, 200 Broadway ; Philadelphia : Geo S. Appleton, 164 Chestnut-Street · leaf 414
DESIGNS FOR VILLAS OR COUNTRY HOUSES. 343 DESIGN xxxn.—A Lake or Rimer Villa for a Picturesque Site. To a person of common sense views, whose life has beenpassed in a tame and prosaic district of country where the eyecatches nothing on the earths plane more elevating thanunbroken levels of meadow… … appear an impossible necessity—if it does not seem wholly outof keeping with nature and life as he understands them. But let another pei-son, gifted not only with common sensebut imagination, live amid such scenery as meets his eye dailyon the Hudson Highlands, and he will often feel that a common-…
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