. Houses for town or country. urprisingly the same in all parts ofthe country, just as it was also surprisingly similar toits prototype in Georgian England. In the sameway the architectural pseudo-classicism of the earlydays of the Republic, as soon as it was sufficientlyintroduced and properly familiarised, was used al-most universally in buildings intended to possess anyconsiderable architectural quality. In both thesecases Americans were content to imitate a habit ofdesign which originated abroad and was authorisedby the respectable critical opinion of the day. Theywere frankly Colonial in
. Houses for town or country. urprisingly the same in all parts ofthe country, just as it was also surprisingly similar toits prototype in Georgian England. In the sameway the architectural pseudo-classicism of the earlydays of the Republic, as soon as it was sufficientlyintroduced and properly familiarised, was used al-most universally in buildings intended to possess anyconsiderable architectural quality. In both thesecases Americans were content to imitate a habit ofdesign which originated abroad and was authorisedby the respectable critical opinion of the day. Theywere frankly Colonial in their practice, untroubledby any aspirations after originality, diversity or pic-turesqueness. As American life became more thoroughly nation-alised, American architecture lost its early innocenceof imitation, and consequently its early uniform-ity. It abandoned all touch with the respectablecritical opinion of other countries; and it wasquite without any definite critical opinions, respect- 6 X> r> c > oG o Ic o o o. \i- \ J HOUSES FOR TOWN OR COUNTRY able or otherwise, of its own. In fact it had noleading strings, except certain blind but significant
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