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 200
scoured both the remote past andthe mysterious East for novel and untried forms. We havealready mentioned the not entirely successful Egyptian dwelling erected by Mr. Stevens in Barclay Street; and thiswas matched by a number of freakish structures, chiefly, ofcourse, country houses, which were… … THE TRANSITIONAL DWELLING apparently, a practising architect in Philadelphia, ofifered tosupply his readers with every known variety of design. Forhimself he has no choice; he offers them examples of pic-turesque Gothic cottages, of urban Italian villas, of statelyclassic mansions, and of bizarre…
Architecture, Domestic
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