Croly, Herbert David, 1869-1930 · New York, Duffield & Company · leaf 20
NEW YORK HOUSE FRONTS instincts. The practice of imitation was deep-rooted; but it was the practice of imitating foreignmodels exclusively. There was never any thought 8 AMERICAN ARCHITECTURE OF TO-DAY of working over, or of really appropriating theforms already nationalised in this country.… … RENAISSANCE FACADES substitution of indiscriminate habits of imitation, forthe selective imitation which had up to that timeprevailed. The idea apparently was that the UnitedStates had inherited, architecturally, all the styles of 9 HOUSES FOR TOWN OR COUNTRY the present and of the past, of the…
Architecture, Domestic · Interior decoration
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