Modern dwellings in town and country adapted to American wants and climate with a treatise on furniture and decoration (1878)
Holly, Henry Hudson, 1834-1892 · New York, Harper & brothers, publishers · leaf 103
progress which American rural architecture lias madesince the days of Puritan plainness. But few specimens are now left ofthe architecture of the good old colony times. There is an old-worldexpression about these venerable buildings which recommends them toour interest as historical reminiscences ;… … First-floor Plau of Desigu No. 14. press the solid energy, determination, and great-heartedness of the found-ers of a new empire in the wilderness. The straightforward respectability and honorable pride of the old gov-ernors are strongly imprinted upontheir mansions. Our prosperity, how-ever, was…
Architecture, Domestic · Furniture
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