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 38
are built almost quite as much to be admired. Thesehouses have about them a species of conscious publicity ;they have been put together and adorned in order to makea brave show—as if their owners were very well awarethat people were watching them; and it is characteristic ofthese owners that they… … « MEN WHO BUILD FINE HOUSES value of a mine or a railroad, they employ the best experts.Thus it is that the best American designers get theirchance, and thus it is that the best American residencesexpress both the highest contemporary ^Esthetic standardsand at the same time the instincts and…
Architecture, Domestic
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