Illustrated homes: a series of papers describing real houses and real people (1875)
Gardner, Eugene Clarence, 1836-1915 · Boston, J. R. Osgood and company · leaf 170
n-dation-stones are cheap, and shingles abundant.Dont ask me to spend my strength in climb-ing stairs, and then to swelter underneath aheated roof Scatter the rooms around, giveample halls and generous doors and windows.We Southern people are not fond of being* cribbed, cabined, and confined. I… … ^::<, J#f^^v ILLUSTRATED HOMES. 173 take the liberty of saying that I do not fancythe peculiar ostentatious spirit that asserts it-self in the high and mighty style. I think wecan justly claim a native frankness and habitof straightforward truthfulness. I hope youwill forget the cautious,…
Architecture, Domestic
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