American Country Houses of To-day: An Illustrated Account of Some Excellent Houses Built and Gardens Planted During the Last Few Years Showing Unmistakable Influence of the Modern Trend in Ideals Architectural |
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Page 241 - Nor was this all. A careful examination with theodolite and level disclosed a possible location for a flower garden on the western extension of the central axial line and an inviting place for an evergreen garden within a sunken court on the southern axis. Many of the grand old locust trees still remain, trees that were doubtless standing when Washington visited Jamaica, lodging over night at Warne's Tavern, described by him in his diary as "a good and decent house.
Page 157 - Kirk and others ORTUNATELY an ideal has many aspects and interpretations. Otherwise the ideal home, once discovered, would be duplicated all over the country and we should be reduced to one size of house and one style of architecture. There is only one permanent feature of all ideal homes, and that is exactly the fact that they cannot be duplicated. The most delightful homes are those that have been lived in by a number of generations of one family. They become then a composite expression of a section...
Page 390 - Literally it is on the hearth, without piers or jambs to bewilder the smoke. The bluish curl often whirls round and round and gives to all who sit within its reach a whiff of pine and cedar logs, now smouldering, now burning brightly. I have been unable to place due emphasis upon many inviting features, practical though they be — the arrangement of sliding outside blinds to the upper windows; the absence of cornices to passages and bedrooms ; the preserving of the best views from the windows even...
Page 391 - ... have been unable to place due emphasis upon many inviting features, practical though they be — the arrangement of sliding outside blinds to the upper windows; the absence of cornices to passages and bedrooms ; the preserving of the best views from the windows even though it entailed a breach 391 in an architectural law ; the substitution of cement for tiles or mosaic in the floors and on the side walls of the bathrooms ; and the large number of those practical luxuries; and the great, whole-souled...
Page 411 - Mrs. Russell Sage, and those whom she has associated with her in the Foundation, have been profoundly impressed with the need of better and more attractive housing facilities in the suburbs for persons of modest means who could pay from twenty-five dollars upward in the purchase of a home.
Page 415 - ... namely, that this community of interest has been singularly successful in giving an esthetic value. More than that, it has an inviting appearance as a possible home. The last view of the Gardens, as we return to town, invites a general summing up of everything. Here is the forerunner of a future suburb. Homes are needed for the people, of that there is not any doubt, and anything which will throw light upon the thought in a practical way, by illustrating what so many thousand dollars will do...
Page 412 - ... laundry is concealed behind trellis enclosures, open yet sheltered. Underground, half sunken driveways lead the automobile to the garage. The houses are grouped so as to form a picture, as well as a shelter for the inmates. There is nothing arrogant or affected about any section of the estate. Some one, a woman of course, wrote the other day that one great thing about the writing of Arnold Bennett, in his "Tales of the Five Towns...
Page 412 - The buildings balance well with each other; a certain sym111 etry is observed which contributes to quality of repose and wholesome restraint. This speaks splendidly for whole-souled management, for industry and skill of supervising architect, for general lay-out of the place. There is a whole lot of common sense in the geography or philosophy or planning — call it what you will. The back yards, if such a name can be given them, are made interesting. They are planted. The family laundry is concealed...
Page 414 - Susan came to see me in a bright, clean alpaca, which looked better than any gown I ever saw on Fifth Avenue, all because it goes with the spirit of the place, and helps spell domesticity. I like the place, it is clean as a new pin. It is neither Dutch nor English. It has an American air, distinctly cosmopolitan. At the same time, those who have lived abroad must welcome it, and those who have not, can come here and get some of the perfume and general hang of things, which we like so much on the...
Page 424 - As I was saying the other day, this is an age of undue specialization. Reading doubtless does much to increase the mental horizon of the architect by broadening his interest and extending his knowledge to a far wider and ever-increasing area. For instance, and as an illustration comparing him with other workers in kindred endeavors, I remember how it was at the Reanf Arts School years ago when many of the students there visited the concerts and lectures on music.