The homes of America : with one hundred and three illustrations (1879)
Lamb, Martha J. (Martha Joanna), 1829-1893 · New York : D. Appleton and Company, 549 and 551 Broadway · leaf 84
home of the Colonial period, which intro-duces the reader to a hospitable, hearty, bluff, curt, soldierly gentleman, ofmodest bearing and exceptional bravery—one of the most gallant officers, indeed,of the Revolution. The stately dwelKng of the Ho^vards of Maryland had awide, regular front, with… … of which appear in the illustration. The principal apartment was nearly square,twenty-five feet by about thirty, while those on the sides were a trifle smaller.The windows opened to the floor, and on a colonnaded portico. The stairway,imported from England, was partly of iron and its woodwork solid…
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