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 252
st notable example of this phaseof the growth of the modern residence was the house of thelate Mr. Henry G. Marquand. He was, indeed, peculiarlya collector, and he always tended to make his residence moreof a museum than the strictly domestic proprieties wouldadmit, but he had rooms designed in… … THE GREATER MODERN RESIDENCE rather with an eye to their intrinsic value than to their placein a decorative scheme, and little or no unity of effect wassought among different apartments. The Japanese rooms, for instance, which were so popu-lar just at that time, were plainly the issue of a…
Architecture, Domestic
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