American homes and gardens . The heating appara- well built and are planned in a thoroughly economical man-tus and fuel-rooms are in the cellar. The house as a com- ner. They are designed in quiet taste and are finely adaptedpleted whole represents a very excellent piece of Colonial to the individual requirements of their owners, and they alsowork, and was designed by Mr. Lionel Moses, architect, of well illustrate, to a marked degree, the moderate-pricedNew York. house of the better class, and are just such houses as arc-All of the three houses have an interest of their own desired by people
American homes and gardens . The heating appara- well built and are planned in a thoroughly economical man-tus and fuel-rooms are in the cellar. The house as a com- ner. They are designed in quiet taste and are finely adaptedpleted whole represents a very excellent piece of Colonial to the individual requirements of their owners, and they alsowork, and was designed by Mr. Lionel Moses, architect, of well illustrate, to a marked degree, the moderate-pricedNew York. house of the better class, and are just such houses as arc-All of the three houses have an interest of their own desired by people of refined tastes and moderate means. Originality, Old and New OUR or five hundred years hence, when thehistory of our contemporary Americanarchitecture comes to be written, it will bestrange indeed if the art historians of thatday do not point out that the most signifi-cant movement in American building art atthe end of the nineteenth century and the beginning of thetwentieth was the deliberate copying and transplanting of. the designs of old buildings to American soil. As a matterof fact the readaptation of the designs of existing Europeanbuildings to the design of American structures is now sovigorous an industry that the moment a new design is pub-lished the first thought, in many cases, is, where did the archi-tect get the idea from? Hence it is that towers of MoorishSpain, Italian palaces, Gothic cathedrals, the designs ofmodern European buildings, and even the unexecuted
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