Villas and cottages : a series of designs prepared for execution in the United State (1857)
Vaux, Calvert, 1824-1895, Downing, A. J. (Andrew Jackson), 1815-1852, Withers, Frederick Clarke, 1828-1901 · New York : Harper & Brothers Publishers, Franklin Square · leaf 136
^ in a third—the result on the eye being dependent as much on theobjects immediately surrounding the house as on thehouse itself. The force of this remark may be tested … BASEMENT convincingly in any large city by an examination ofthe architecture of its shops and warehouses. It fre-quently happens that a block of stores, which for years 124 VILLAS AND COTTAGES. . has presented a tall, massive, dignified appearance, sud-denly shrinks into stunted, second-rate…
Architecture, Domestic
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