Croly, Herbert David, 1869-1930 · New York, Duffield & Company · leaf 76
s evident,however, in the case of these American estates,no such course has been followed. They have beenlaid out much as the villa plots of two or three acresused to be laid out. No sufficient advantage hasbeen taken of the fact that the owner of the estatecontrols probably all of the surrounding… … THE END OF A GARDEN the layout of the land is adapted to the locationand the design of the house—both of which arcselected or prepared without much reference to theplan of the estate considered as a whole. It is thehouse which the American considers first, last andalways—no matter whether the house…
Architecture, Domestic · Interior decoration
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