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achieved aesthetic American antiquity archi architects Art Nouveau artistic Baroque Bernard DeVoto brick builders churches classical colour construction contemporary cornice cottages culture dining room displayed domestic architecture Edwardian effect eighteenth century elaborate Elizabethan England English enthusiasm erected evolved examples façade fact favour flourished function furniture Georgian glass Gothic Gothic Revival Greek grounds H. H. Richardson ingenuity Inigo Jones interior decoration invariably Italian John Dos Passos Lancaster landscape large number less Lierne Vault living London luxury flats mantelpiece masterpieces medieval merit method of building modern Moreover never nevertheless nineteenth century Norman original Osbert Lancaster painted palaces Palladian past perhaps period Pont Street Pont Street Dutch popular preserved Queen Anne Regency reign remained Renaissance rendered result revival Rococo roof SKYSCRAPER soon style taste tecture tion town Tudor variety Vault Victorian walls whole Willa Cather Wimbledon Wimbledon Transitional wood Wren