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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 208

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inality can be obtained merely bybreaking precedents; but at least they were no longer colo-nial. They were not a reproduction of the kind of dwellingwhich was fashionable at that time in England; but theywere the first wild beginning of that gradual process of localexperimentation with European… … Newport, R. I. Horace Trumbauer, Architect. STAIRWAY IN THE RESIDENCE OF E. J. BERWIND. THE TRANSITIONAL DWELLING gone very far, but which is the excuse and the explanationfor much in American building that is otherwise inexcusableand inexplicable. [207] THE BEGINNINGS OF THE GREATERMODERN RESIDENCE

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