Audiences : a few suggestions to those who look and listen (1896)
Holden, Florence P., 1870- · Chicago : A.C. McClurg · leaf 39
e what possibilities itpresents. The structure ofwood or brick shows a utility of purpose rather than an aim at artistic arrangement. The form of the roof, gambrel or hip, gives, like the French mansard, space for ample rooms below, and in itself an attic with dormer windows, so attractive just now… … VENETIAN ARCHITECTURE 35 hospitality of the old English Colonialdays, when every householder had a littlekingdom of his own, unthreatened by far-distant kings and queens and parliaments.The porches and porticoes are for comfort,and suggest the days in England whenthe Commoners were men of affairs…
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