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 368
, six, and even seven stories high. As aconsequence of this height the internal machinery of thesebuildings becomes immensely more complicated. One ormore automatic electric elevators is provided; the heatingapparatus is bulky and occupies a great deal of the sub-basement; the hot-water supply of… … THE MODERN AMERICAN RESIDENCE for a building which is at most forty feet wide and five orsix stories high is almost impossible. Many ingenious andinteresting attempts have been made, but no one has yet suc-ceeded in really incorporating in the design the top story.The depth of these houses is,…
Architecture, Domestic
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