The country house; a practical manual of the planning and construction of the American country home and its surroundings (1905)
Hooper, Charles Edward, 1867- · New York : Doubleday, Page & company · leaf 30
nt slice of the pudding.It has been the usual method among prospective builders to determine uponthe style and plan of the house to be built, and then to choose a site mostunsuited for the purpose. This method of procedure is, strictly speaking, anillustration of the hackneyed putting the cart… … should not be sofirmly fixed as tocause future com-plications, as it isvery apt to do. As is oftenthe case, onelooks about forexisting examplesthat please him;this is natural.If in the researchhe becomes com-pletely and in- separably wedded tosome particular style,then this style mustgovern the…
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