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 435
tobacco, themagnolia, and other characteristic fonns offoliage and flowere in the decorative pai-ts ofsuch a building, a novel and beautiful character would begiven to the architecture, which every American would feel tohave more meaning here than the zig-zag or billet-moulding ofthe Northern, or… … [Fig. 171. nesitm fora new Capital.] DESIGNS FOK VILLAS OK COUNTRY HOUSES. 363 Merely to copy these for villa architecture would, of course,be out of keeping, since they were originally designed foredifices of a public character, where the most elaboratedecoration was called for. But new…
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