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 460
the book is derived fromthe passionate devotion to a beautiful house, which is arousedin the woman who planned it, by the danger of it fallinginto the hands of people who will impair its perfection; butit is the description of the house itself to which we wish par-ticularly to call attention—so…
Architecture, Domestic
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