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 524
ration could notbe desired of the peculiar contrast characteristic of Amer-ican life. !Such, then, is an outline sketch of the greater Americanresidence, past and present. The sketch has necessarily beenconcerned more with esthetic and social terms of descrip-]tion than with strictly architectural… … THE MODERN RESIDENCE architectural experimentation, the product being given aneducational twist, because anything in this country whichboth meets a popular demand and possesses esthetic meritmust become educational. This is the aspect of the matterwhich foreigners find it so difficult to…
Architecture, Domestic
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