Croly, Herbert David, 1869-1930 · New York, Duffield & Company · leaf 250
by the substitution of stone forstucco, but the colour of the plaster has more greyin it than usual, and is in itself both pleasing andappropriate. It should be noticed, also, that theplan of the house enables its occupants to obtain fulladvantage of the layout. The living-room and thedining-room… … HOUSES FOR TOWN OR COUNTRY ate-sized apartment—quite in scale with the life andthe occupations of a modern American family. The place at Newport is less of an estate than thatin Roslyn, and more of a country villa, but even inthis instance there was more ground in the imme-diate vicinity of the…
Architecture, Domestic · Interior decoration
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