Don Mills, Ont. : Southam-MacLean Publications · leaf 533
nd pot-bellied bureaux soon made their way toEngland—for, in order to curry favor with the rulingpowers, the nobles and wealthy commoners began tofurnish their homes in the Dutch fashion. Wherealterations in country dwellings were contemplatedby wealthy owners the architects were instructedto… … Fig. 1 classical style to which has been given the generictitle Georgian. A heavy classicism characterized the architectureof the days immediately preceding the advent of Wil-liam and Mary. The great fire (time of Charles II.)had swept away the greater part of mediaeval Lon-don—a circumstance…
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