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 188
itectural ingenuity and external orna-mentation which put all precedent at defiance and set atnaught established rules. The new city has risen up likeenchantment, telling of new times, a new people, new tastes,and new habits. The old houses on Broadway were all ofbrick, and plain in their exterior… … THE TRANSITIONAL DWELLING curtains which once flaunted their bright colors throughsmall window-panes. He then goes on to describe some of the newer residences.The most elegant Grecian mansion in New York is, hesays, situated in College Place at the corner of MurrayStreet; and he considers it a more…
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