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 406
less formality,on the one hand, and, on the other, an unnatural attempt atnaturalistic imitation, that their garden history is as full ofawful as it is of splendid examples. The unique value ofEnglish landscape architecture and art does not consist in theformal beauty of its country dwellings, or… … Philadelphia, Pa, Horace Trumbauer, Architect. HALL IN THE RESIDENCE OF P. A. B. WIDENER. THE MODERN AMERICAN RESIDENCE ceeded, little by little, and through the force of persistentinterest, in making even his blundering homely and beautiful.Rich Americans may learn from the English the spirit…
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