Stately Homes in America From Colonial Times to the Present Day
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Indeed, many of the old brown- stone dwellings are reconstructed, partly for the purpose of securing more convenient internal planning, but also partly for the purpose of setting them up architecturally for i themselves. j The houses that are reconstructed are no longer built in } rows. Even when they are erected by speculative builders, three or four at a time, each house claims the distinction of an individual design. Moreover, it is not too much to say j that this claim is frequently made in... the most deliberate and pretentious manner. Whatever such a house may be, it [355] STATELY HOMES IN AMERICi must at any rate be different. It is as if New York tic architecture, after submitting tamely for a gei and a half to the most distressing and lugubrious u ity, had now decided to practise and enjoy the possible limit of esthetic freedom. All conventions matter have been cast aside. It seems settled that for New York shall symbolize in the design of its private ings the incoherent multiplicity of its origins.
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Indeed, many of the old brown- stone dwellings are reconstructed, partly for the purpose of securing more convenient internal planning, but also partly for the purpose of setting them up architecturally for i themselves. j The houses that are reconstructed are no longer built in } rows. Even when they are erected by speculative builders, three or four at a time, each house claims the distinction of an individual design. Moreover, it is not too much to say j that this claim is frequently made in... the most deliberate and pretentious manner. Whatever such a house may be, it [355] STATELY HOMES IN AMERICi must at any rate be different. It is as if New York tic architecture, after submitting tamely for a gei and a half to the most distressing and lugubrious u ity, had now decided to practise and enjoy the possible limit of esthetic freedom. All conventions matter have been cast aside. It seems settled that for New York shall symbolize in the design of its private ings the incoherent multiplicity of its origins.
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