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 476
gard this tendency as unfortunate, although inevi-table, were it not that it has the incidental advantage ofnecessitating the actual performance of certain difficult anddelicate work by American craftsmen. Few people outside the profession realize how much thearchitects have been hampered… … THE MODERN RESIDENCE themselves and their clients, but their handicraftsmen. Thereally skilled mechanic had almost wholly disappeared dur-ing the dark Middle Age. Technical education in thebuilding trades, as in other branches of industry, was con-fined to the cruder processes. The stone-cutters,…
Architecture, Domestic
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