One hundred country houses : modern American examples (1909)
Embury, Aymar, 1880- · New York : The Century Co. · leaf 76
Theportico is here treated with a full entablature (that is,architrave, frieze, and cornice) over the columns, while thecornice only continues around the house. In the Marsden house the order is the familiar RomanDoric, while the broad steps across the entire front of thepiazza remind us very… … RESIDENCE OF DR. MARSDEN CHESTNUT HILL, PA. CHARLES BARTON KEEN, ARCHITECT ONE HUNDRKI) COUNTRY HOUSES happv adjustment as this of old forms to new needs whichmakes the difference between copying and design. Evidenceof careful and painstaking study is shown also in the treat-ment of the fence and…
Architecture, Domestic
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