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 378
due to some of the rambling, unpreten-tious shingled houses, designed by McKim, Mead, andWhite, the late Bruce Price, and the late Richard M. Hunt.It has even been held that these buildings show somethingmore than certain distinct and pleasant individual qualitiesof design, that they exhibited… … THE MODERN AMERICAN RESIDENCE by the profession at large in favor of a renewed experimen-tation in historic styles, indicates that they failed to satisfycurrent esthetic standards and current practical needs. In truth these early villas were in effect wooden build-ings, even when other materials…
Architecture, Domestic
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