History of architecture, from the earliest times; its present condition in Europe and the United States; with a biography of eminent architects, and a glossary of architectural terms (1848)
Tuthill, Louisa C. (Louisa Caroline), 1798-1879 · Philadelphia, Lindsay and Blakiston · leaf 337
urdities that DOMESTIC ARCHITECTURE. 275 have resulted from following her dictates, have pro-duced ridiculous anomalies in other countries. In adopting the domestic architecture of foreigncountries, we may be equally ridiculous. England,our fatherland, from some resemblance in habits… … Our associations of convenience, home-comfort, andrespectability are connected with a certain style ofbuilding, which has been evolved by the wants, man-ners, and customs of the people. Any great deviationsfrom a style that has been thus fixed, cannot be per-fectly agreeable. We must improve upon…
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