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 204
peared in a number ofthe Art Journal for 1876. He says: A long, grand,impressive, contradicting, beautiful, strange thing—such isthe first feeling on beholding Armsmear, an Italian villa instone, massive [a massive villa?], noble, refined, yet not car-rying out any decided principles of… … Ne«[iort, R. I. Horace Trumbauer, Architect. HALL IN THE RESIDENCE OF E. J. BERWIND. THE TRANSITIONAL DWELLING light lavish ornamentation, such as oriental taste delightsin. Nor was this all. Our author adds a final word. Yet, although the villa is Italian and cosmopolitan, thefeeling is English.…
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