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Houses for town or country (1907)

Croly, Herbert David, 1869-1930 · New York, Duffield & Company · leaf 128

An illustration from Houses for town or country, 1907, leaf 128
like to spotand line the surface of their brick walls. A singlecourse of stone marks the line of the ground floor,and the window sills are similarly distinguished.The windows are small and not capped by any orna-mental members whatsoever. The only importantornamental feature of the building is a… … A WESTERN ENTRANCE distinguished from the other floors by the numerouswindows which its plan demands. The entranceporch is treated with the same simplicity and thesame respect for the dominant material. Its ap-pearance is not complicated and falsified by anyscheme of applied decoration; and the two…

Architecture, Domestic · Interior decoration

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