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 336
ity house, something in the modernstyle; but he showed a survival of the thriftiness of his earlyhabits, as well as his personal opinion of the big moderndwellings, by carefully instructing his architects to avoiddesigning a palatial building. On the other hand, inmany cases, particularly among men… … ECONOMIC AND SOCIAL CONDITIONS mentioned the late C. P. Huntington, Charles M. Schwab,a number of the steel and Standard Oil millionaires,Mr, Charles T. Yerkes, Mr. Marshall Field, and manyothers. If the craving for a palatial residence, however, some-times escaped the first generation of…
Architecture, Domestic
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