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 174
thas within it a latent sense of form and a submerged butdeep-rooted passion for ideas which is more French thanEnglish, and that consequently the rejection of French influ-ence, which would have resulted either from a continuedclose alliance with England or from the adoption of a sys-tem of… … w wO O HPiw o b5 THE TRANSITIONAL DWELLING beginning to welcome the earliest of the Irish immigrants,was also becoming more cosmopolitan in ideas and tastes.French wall-paper and clocks, and ornaments brought ap-parently in miscellaneous profusion from other Europeancountries, betray the…
Architecture, Domestic
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