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 424
ty, betweenthe suburban character of the lay-out and the mag-nificence of some of the buildings. When the picturesqueand unpretentious frame villas which we have already de-scribed were superseded by the more sumptuous type ofdwelling, sites, which were appropriate to the smallerbuilding, became… … THE MODERN AMERICAN RESIDENCE book without a sense that the restricted setting of these build-ings, and the stunted approaches to them, so far vitiates thevery design that, in order to be fair to the buildings them-selves, one has almost to go through a process of visualelimination. After…
Architecture, Domestic
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