Croly, Herbert David, 1869-1930 · New York, Duffield & Company · leaf 112
but lacks somehow the picturesque charm ofthe smaller one. This shortcoming is, however,amply compensated for by an air of repose anddignity, due largely, no doubt, to its sharp, clean-cutmasses. Except on the back where several small in-consequential dormers modestly proclaim the exist-ence of… … HOUSES FOR TOWN OR COUNTRY themselves, do not combine happily. They give theeffect of two columns whose bases are not on thesame level. The architect has evidently tried hardto make them as different in shape and treatment aspossible; in the octagonal one the vertical lines haveaccordingly been…
Architecture, Domestic · Interior decoration
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