Stately Homes in America From Colonial Times to the Present Day
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Winston Churchill's amusing novel of " The Celebrity," a new rich man describes his favorite country-seat in the following words: " I had all these ideas I gathered knocking about the world, and I gave them to Willis of Philadelphia to put together for me. But he's honest enough not to claim the house. Take, for instance, that minaret business on the west; I picked that up from a mosque in Algiers. The oriel just this side is whole cloth from Haddon Hall, and the galleried porch next it from a ...Florentine villa. The conical capped tower I got from a French chateau, and some of the features on the south from [ 199] STATELY HOMES IN AMERICA a Buddhist temple in Japan. Only a little blending and grouping was necessary, and Willis calls himself an archi- tect, and wasn't equal to it. Now," he added, " get the effect.
Did you ever see another house like it? " To any but an American familiar with the ways of his countrymen this would sound like very wild satire; but, in point of fact, combinations quite as incongruous as this have frequently been made from precisely the same motives that Mr.
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To quickly assess the difficulty of the text, read a short excerpt:
Winston Churchill's amusing novel of " The Celebrity," a new rich man describes his favorite country-seat in the following words: " I had all these ideas I gathered knocking about the world, and I gave them to Willis of Philadelphia to put together for me. But he's honest enough not to claim the house. Take, for instance, that minaret business on the west; I picked that up from a mosque in Algiers. The oriel just this side is whole cloth from Haddon Hall, and the galleried porch next it from a ...Florentine villa. The conical capped tower I got from a French chateau, and some of the features on the south from [ 199] STATELY HOMES IN AMERICA a Buddhist temple in Japan. Only a little blending and grouping was necessary, and Willis calls himself an archi- tect, and wasn't equal to it. Now," he added, " get the effect.
Did you ever see another house like it? " To any but an American familiar with the ways of his countrymen this would sound like very wild satire; but, in point of fact, combinations quite as incongruous as this have frequently been made from precisely the same motives that Mr.
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