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 192
ed churches, useless campanile towers, and thelike. As yet, he says, there is no American architectwhose name is known beyond the circle of his own employ-ers, and he predicts that we must outgrow our childishdependence upon the Old World before we shall be able toboast of our architects as we… … THE TRANSITIONAL DWELLING cause he is an amusing illustration of the prevalent standardsof taste and confusion of ideas. The well-informed Americanculture of the time—that of the New England Renaissance—had no interest in any art save that of literature, and theonly monuments it desired to rear…
Architecture, Domestic
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