American homes and gardens . The Entrance Should Be in Keeping with the Grounds and Surroundings September, 1906 AMERICAN HOMES AND GARDENS 167. The More Imposing the Architecture, the Straighter ShouldBe the Road your motor in at its first gear or drive your horses up to thefront door all winded and blown. Widen your entrance sothat you hardly feel the turning of your wheels. A frequentand felicitous method of doing this is by breaking the angleformed by the entrance proper and the road outside by asemicircular or elliptical transition, flanked perhaps bygate lodges or masonry, or the whole s
American homes and gardens . The Entrance Should Be in Keeping with the Grounds and Surroundings September, 1906 AMERICAN HOMES AND GARDENS 167. The More Imposing the Architecture, the Straighter ShouldBe the Road your motor in at its first gear or drive your horses up to thefront door all winded and blown. Widen your entrance sothat you hardly feel the turning of your wheels. A frequentand felicitous method of doing this is by breaking the angleformed by the entrance proper and the road outside by asemicircular or elliptical transition, flanked perhaps bygate lodges or masonry, or the whole semicircle borderedby a design of gates, posts, wall and buildings, forminga unit converging toward the central feature of the mainentrance. I emphasize the importance of effacing all suggestion ofabruptness. By this I mean there must never be too markeda difference between the entrance and the surrounding land-scape. One need neither lose importance nor emphasis byan intelligent use of the correct materials and the rightscheme. Nothing could be more harmonious or in betterkeeping with the environs than certain entrances in which thenatura
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