Holly's country seats: containing lithographic designs for cottages, villas, mansions, etc., with their accompanying outbuildings; also, country churches, city buildings, railway stations, etc., etc (1863)
Holly, Henry Hudson, 1834-1892 · New York, D. Appleton and Company · leaf 243
kind are not with us advisable, yetwe have sometipies dreamed that architectural harmony might beencouraged by offering certain privileges, as a temporary reductionof taxes, to those who will submit their plans to the censorship ofa public officer, chosen by architects, whose duty it shall be to… … ^3t%^«* ^trj^f -^^^ DESIGN No. 31. In our country, utility and ugliness seem to be almost synony-mous terms. It is not understood that a useful object may bemade beautiful, not only without destroying its utility, but evenadding to it. For one of the great sources of beauty is fitness, andit has…
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