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adaptation Annapolis arch architect attractive balusters balustrade Boston Breese House brick building built caps carved charm chimney Churchill House classic orders Colonial architecture Colonial house Colonial style color columns Connecticut cornice decidedly delicate dormers early effect elaborate England enrichment entirely entrance exterior feature fireplace floor frequently front gable garden girt Goddard House hall height House in Portsmouth House in Salem inches instance interior later lines lintel Lowell House Mansion mantel masonry Massachusetts modern molded occasionally Olcott House original overhang painted Palladian motif panel panes of glass Paul Revere House piazza picturesque pilasters Plymouth porch Portsmouth possible posts proportions rear rendering restored roof Samuel McIntire sash SECOND PERIOD second story shown side simple sometimes staircase stairs thing Third Period tion to-day treatment unusual usually Virginia wainscot wall Whipple House width Winslow House wood wooden
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Page 11 - ANNOUNCED by all the trumpets of the sky, Arrives the snow, and, driving o'er the fields, Seems nowhere to alight: the whited air Hides hills and woods, the river, and the heaven, And veils the farm-house 'at the garden's end. The sled and traveller stopped, the courier's feet Delayed, all friends shut out, the housemates sit Around the radiant fireplace, enclosed In a tumultuous privacy of storm.
Page 14 - ... the other side of the Atlantic ! Did not William Morris always maintain that wood was and forever would be the most suitable material for building a house? On the side of the railroad track near Toledo 1 saw frame houses, whose architecture is debased from this Cambridge architecture, blown clean over by the gale. But the gale that will deracinate Cambridge has not yet begun to rage. ... I rejoiced to see the house of Longfellow, in spite of the fact that he wrote
Page 131 - ... sand-covered with somewhat coarse sharp clean sand, the adept person who cleared the visible effects of use from the floors at the close of the strenuous work of Saturday, in preparation for the early beginning of the New England Sabbath, often tracing on the clean surface intricate patterns with the rough broom.
Page 92 - It was decided to keep much as they were, the interiors of this remarkable addition to an earlier house, they being after slight restorations of some parts, most interesting examples of the second period of Colonial Architecture...
Page 34 - It would, however, be well to-day if the rank and file of our nation could return in a marked degree toward this simplicity and again live a life approximating the sane life of our Colonial forbears.
Page 188 - The best of its kind, with cupola and original door beautifully paneled. The staircase and interiors throughout are in splendid preservation and of remarkable workmanship...
Page 34 - The houses of our forefathers bespoke a fearless honesty characteristic of themselves, — a lack of pretence and sham, but with a diffident expression of a love for the beautiful which, if somewhat severe and subdued, was their rightful heritage, and made their homes express the limitations early forced on them by the country of their adoption.
Page 161 - House — as is very likely to be done with material things worth while — that is, by small and individual movements — not by legislative acts.
Page 2 - ... is too likely to bristle with features with the sad inclination to be unstudied, badly proportioned, and generally uncomfortable in disposition.