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 434
me breath it must be ad-mitted that such experiments in the mass add enormously tothe picturesqueness of American life, and those people whocriticize them in the spirit of an architectural purist losethereby a great deal of pleasure and do their country aninjustice. There are a number of American… … Fifth Avenue, New York City. Clinton & Russell, Architects. RESIDENCE BELONGING TO WILLIAM WALDORF ASTOR. THE MODERN AMERICAN RESIDENCE owners and to their architects. They do not at all like, forinstance, the almost exclusively esthetic point of view whichgenerally determines the design. They…
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