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 78
s, also imported. J^t is significant that the originalowner of Westover, who did things more extravagantlythan his neighbors, went so far as to fetch over urns ofstone, hewn in England, forged-iron gates, and even, inanticipation of a modern practise, a genuine Italian stonemantelpiece. On the… … A THE COLONIAL RESIDENCE evident that some of the designs for finish of certainhouses were taken. Whatever the practise in the beginning, and whateverproportion of the old woodwork was imported, it may betaken for certain that the proportion thereof wrought inthe colonies gradually increased, and…
Architecture, Domestic
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