. Houses for town or country. rticularly in the vicinity ofNew York, designed in any style his client pleased,and was as willing to supply a Florentine villa as tofurnish a Gothic cottage, or a Swiss chalet. He be-lieved, in the depths of his innocence and ignorance,that the houses with which he spotted the landscapewere the real thing, and were made authentic bythe high sources from which they derived; but as amatter of fact his whimsical copies, in which a fre-quent ponderousness of construction was combinedwith restless frivolity of effect, generally bore thesame relation to their models as
. Houses for town or country. rticularly in the vicinity ofNew York, designed in any style his client pleased,and was as willing to supply a Florentine villa as tofurnish a Gothic cottage, or a Swiss chalet. He be-lieved, in the depths of his innocence and ignorance,that the houses with which he spotted the landscapewere the real thing, and were made authentic bythe high sources from which they derived; but as amatter of fact his whimsical copies, in which a fre-quent ponderousness of construction was combinedwith restless frivolity of effect, generally bore thesame relation to their models as a childs drawingsdo to the contour of the human face. During thisperiod the only way in which a desire for originalityexpressed itself, was in the occasional combinationof several different styles in one miscellaneousand eccentric mass. During the next importantperiod of residential construction, the early years ofthe eighties, the imitative tendency which still domi- 222 o > O/O O o > e Ioc o > 73 D> 2; o2; o ?5.
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