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 270
tive has come to operate, untilat the present time American architects may be said to bemore original imitators than the architects of any other coun-try. The peculiarity, however, of these prevailing motivesof American architectural history is that they are all generaland cultural, rather than… … THE GREATER MODERN RESIDENCE and it is this fact which explains the somewhat paradoxicalstatement with which we started our review—the statement,viz.: that, while these greater contemporary residences aresuperficially modern and have no American architecturalprecursors, yet they can not be…
Architecture, Domestic
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