. Houses for town or country. ly and correctly rendered inthe West as anywhere in the Atlantic States. Soaccurate is the architects knowledge on the subjectnowadays that one might look at any one of dozensof houses and imagine it were in New is nothing in either composition or detail toundeceive one for a moment. There is somethingfrank, something naive and ingenuous about Colo-nial houses that an Englishman would perhaps sumup in one word—homely. The exteriors are invit-ing but not pretentious, decorative but not the interiors they are frank, giving what theirexteriors
. Houses for town or country. ly and correctly rendered inthe West as anywhere in the Atlantic States. Soaccurate is the architects knowledge on the subjectnowadays that one might look at any one of dozensof houses and imagine it were in New is nothing in either composition or detail toundeceive one for a moment. There is somethingfrank, something naive and ingenuous about Colo-nial houses that an Englishman would perhaps sumup in one word—homely. The exteriors are invit-ing but not pretentious, decorative but not the interiors they are frank, giving what theirexteriors promise—cosiness, delicacy and refinementof detail. The expression that an architect gives a house isto a certain extent an expression of his relation withthe client. If the latter be particularly amenable andamiable in his intercourse with the architect, therecan be little doubt that the work the architect does forhim will be performed with a keen pleasure, whichcannot help making itself visible in the aspect of the 246.
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