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23 Bond Street adaptation American architect American Renaissance ancient Anglo-Saxon home Annapolis archi architect artist atmosphere beautiful BENNETT HOUSE better Bristol building called century châlets chapter CHIMNEY-PIECE Colonial exemplar Colonial houses commercialism Conn cottage COTTON SMITH HOUSE domestic architecture DOORWAY dwelling dwelling-house East Orange England English Renaissance erected exploit fancy Farm-house Fifth Avenue Germantown Gothic GRACE CHURCH RECTORY grand epoch H. W. Poor HENRY RANDALL HOOD illustrated Jacobean Jacobin Jacobin architecture Jacobin house JOY WHEELER Dow kind KINGDOR live Mansart mansion Martin Chuzzlewit material matter McPhædris Middletown modern Moresque Mount Vernon newly invented architecture Philadelphia Philip Hone Plate PRINCESSGATE Queen Anne Queen Anne architecture Queen Anne style reader régime Renais Richmond-Dow Romanesque roof Ruskin Salem Scaramouches SMITH HOUSE style of architecture tecture temperament thing tion to-day Transitional period Tuxedo Washington Washington Irving Watkinson house Wyoming York City Zeng house
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Page 33 - But were stopped by the door of a tomb By the door of a legended tomb; And I said - 'What is written, sweet sister, On the door of this legended tomb?
Page 63 - Scott, being: a minor at the time of the conclusion of the treaty of peace between Great Britain and the United States, was...
Page 19 - We want to belong somewhere and to something, not to be entirely cut off by ourselves as stray atoms in boundless space either geographical or chronological.
Page 31 - But Psyche, uplifting her finger, Said - 'Sadly this star I mistrust Her pallor I strangely mistrust: Oh, hasten! - oh, let us not linger! Oh, fly! - let us fly! - for we must.
Page 17 - It must presuppose, by subtle architectonic expression, both in itself and in its surroundings, that its owner possessed, once upon a time, two good parents, four grandparents, eight greatgrandparents, and so on; had, likely, brothers and sisters, uncles and aunts, all eminently respectable and endeared to him...
Page 21 - The predominant local color which distinguishes American Renaissance has been given to it by what has been our great national building commodity, ie, wood. The Greeks and Romans built of stone when they had the money to pay for it. Both stone and wood have grain, and have to be used with the same careful regard for it. Whether we build our columns up of stone or wooden sections — latitudinal in the one case, longitudinal in the other — to support a cornice also constructed in sections according...
Page 49 - A little learning is a dangerous thing, Drink deep, or taste not the Pierian spring, For shallow draughts intoxicate the brain, But drinking largely sobers us again.
Page 21 - Whether we build our columns up of stone or wooden sections — latitudinal in the one case, longitudinal in the other— to support a cornice also constructed in sections according to the convenient sizes of commerce for the particular material, makes no difference to the canons of art so long as we are not trying to deceive or to imitate one material with another simply with that end in view. It is extremely doubtful if our American ancestors were ever guilty of premeditated deception. Their material...
Page 10 - This review of American renaissance originally appeared as a series of papers in the "Architects and builders
Page 17 - ... all subjects of consideration. Fukusas were once an important part in the outfit of every Japanese bride of high family : some were plain squares of silk, or crepe, but others showed the family crest, the regulation long-life symbols, the New Year's ship of good fortune, or the seven household gods. CIVILIZED man, and especially one of Anglo-Saxon descent, is a homeloving creature. To him the dwelling-place stands for his most important institution. The arts, sciences and traditions he pursues,...