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 60
ples of the style, one at Chichester andthe other at Wandsworth, are known to have been designedby Sir Christopher Wren, during his declining years ; andwhile it is possible that these were the very first buildingsto be designed in this manner, the precise chronology ofthe whole movement is as… … THE COLONIAL RESIDENCE ban houses of the merchants, who were beginning to berich and influential, the great majority of these dwellingsconsisted, not of country mansions, but rather of detachedor semi-detached but very substantial suburban villas. The chief characteristics of these houses are…
Architecture, Domestic
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