American estates and gardens . t64j AMERICAN ESTATES AND GARDENS Splendid ijiiilding, therefore, is a fundamental princiijle of Newport building. And sogreat have been its architectural activities of late years that a friendly rivalry has sprung upamong the owners of its large houses as to who shall have the most magnificent home. Eachnew house is grander and finer than its predecessors. The resoiuces of our most resourcefularchitects are taxed to their utmost; the skill and ingenuity of our decorators and furnishersare all but exhausted that the spacious mansion be fitly decorated and amply f
American estates and gardens . t64j AMERICAN ESTATES AND GARDENS Splendid ijiiilding, therefore, is a fundamental princiijle of Newport building. And sogreat have been its architectural activities of late years that a friendly rivalry has sprung upamong the owners of its large houses as to who shall have the most magnificent home. Eachnew house is grander and finer than its predecessors. The resoiuces of our most resourcefularchitects are taxed to their utmost; the skill and ingenuity of our decorators and furnishersare all but exhausted that the spacious mansion be fitly decorated and amply furnished; thetaste of our best landscape architects is brought into play that the grovmds and gardens be in. C>|>yriglit. 1897, by Frank H. Lhild. Newport. R. I. THE BREAKERS—THE LIBRARY. keeping with the lavish scale in which each great house is maintained. If the social life ismaintained at a high key, the architectural life, so to speak, is raised to a corresponding architectural thought which lay behind the creation of Versailles is identical withthe ideas that have brought the great houses of Newport into existence. It is true that Ver-sailles was a single palace, built by a despotic monarch for his own delight, while Newport isan aggregation of palaces, built not by despots, but by free American citizens. But the palaceof Versailles was a vast architectural background for court fetes and festivities of all so the palaces of Newport are architectural backgrounds for the pleasures and sports of [65]
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