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 426
DESIGNS FOK VILLAS OR COUNTRY HOUSES. 353 several villas lately built upon the Hudson, it would give anabundant accommodation for all the requirements of our mostrefined social life. … Looking at the exterior of this design, the student ofexpression will find it marked by dignity, variety, and har-mony ; dignity in the solid enti-ance tower, and breadth of thefa9ade; variety in the different outlines of pediment, horizontalcornice, and loftier campanile; and harmony in the…
Architecture, Domestic
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