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 414
erhaps, the only prominent architect who hasconsistently used any of them, while the house of Mr. HenryW. Poor at Tuxedo is one of the few of the greater dwellingswhich is frankly Jacobean. Yet it is not too much to saythat the Jacobean house expresses more perfectly than anyother just that… … THE MODERN AMERICAN RESIDENCE have a tendency to overemphasize the vertical dimension,and unless carefully managed will give the building anappearance of being cocked up and of failing to fit its site.In this respect the low lines, the well-distributed masses,overhanging eaves, and the gently…
Architecture, Domestic
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