Stately homes in America : from colonial times to the present day (1903)
Desmond, Harry W. (Harry William), 1863-1913, Croly, Herbert David, 1869-1930 · New York : D. Appleton and Company · leaf 164
26) marked almost the end of the oldand the beginning of a new period in the domestic architec-ture of New York City. The houses which he describeswere an urban product of the colonial tradition; they werebuilt by well-trained mechanics, by carpenters and plastererswho were accustomed to good… … Newport kesiJence of tlie Ijte Cornelius Vanderbilt. Richard M. Hunt, Architect. HALL AND STAIRWAY IN THE BREAKERS. THE TRANSITIONAL DWELLING five years later, finds them somewhat monotonous; but if so,the monotony was very decorous. The dwellings mentionedhave been well described by a good judge…
Architecture, Domestic
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