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Identifier: americanestatesg00ferr (find matches)
Title: American estates and gardens
Year: 1904 (1900s)
Authors: Ferree, Barr, 1862-1924
Subjects: Architecture, Domestic -- United States Gardens
Publisher: New York, Munn and Company
Contributing Library: Wellesley College Library
Digitizing Sponsor: Wellesley College Library

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a wall supportinga balustrade. This is interrupted in the center by steps, at the base of which stand marble hons.The terrace wall and balustrade are continued at right angles to the end of the dining-room.The water of the bay is almost directly below, so sheer is the cliff and so abrupt the descent.Quite in the distance are the gray walls of Fort Schuyler, across Long Island Sound. (210)
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ozw h O o u D § wh < e Oh CO o CO D o X h wQ ONOo. Q <QZw o< X Some California Houses ERHAPS no architecture is so generally regarded as distinctively American and so distinctively modern as that of the houses of the Far West, and particularly those^T^f^., ^^ California, which follow, as their generic type, the old Spanish Missions. To the Eastern eye, which is very apt to view buildings of every kind as somewhatnecessarily modeled on European ideals, and more especially on the ideals of England,France, and Italy, the buildings of a frankly new type, which have become quite prevalentin California of late years, seem to be thoroughly characteristic of our warm Western lands.Their attraction, indeed, is twofold, and consists not alone in the unusual style of their art,but in the thoroughly admirable way in which they meet the local climatic conditions. That many of these buildings have charm, and quite distinctive charm, is true. Anold civilization is created af

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