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 274
y similar stim-ulus; they have been the product of temporary fashions orreformatory ideas. But at the present time American architecture seems tobe laying the foundation of a vigorous native growth; itseems to be adopting the one distinctively artistic traditionwithout which under the conditions of… … THE GREATER MODERN RESIDENCE forms by a process of gradual selection and improvement;but that process may be left to take care of itself—providedonly it is perpetuated by men with the proper point of viewand with adequate training. [275] THE MODERN AMERICAN RESIDENCEECONOMIC AND SOCIAL CONDITIONS…
Architecture, Domestic
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