An architectural monographs on Newport, Rhode Island, an early American seaport, . WANTO.\-LN M.\\ HOUSE, NEWPORT, RHODE NEWPORT—AN EARLY AMERICAN SEAPORT 5. the pages of Vignola or Buhlmann, but arenevertheless beautiful in their expression of thework of the master craftsman of that day, deficient in knowledge of the pure classicdetail that the work of the Massachusetts coastboasts, has, however, evolved a somewhatprimitive expressionof it that abounds inoriginality and iswell worth stud). The architecture ofour old coast towns,Newburyport, Salem,Marblehead, Po
An architectural monographs on Newport, Rhode Island, an early American seaport, . WANTO.\-LN M.\\ HOUSE, NEWPORT, RHODE NEWPORT—AN EARLY AMERICAN SEAPORT 5. the pages of Vignola or Buhlmann, but arenevertheless beautiful in their expression of thework of the master craftsman of that day, deficient in knowledge of the pure classicdetail that the work of the Massachusetts coastboasts, has, however, evolved a somewhatprimitive expressionof it that abounds inoriginality and iswell worth stud). The architecture ofour old coast towns,Newburyport, Salem,Marblehead, Ports-mouth, and Newport,all these and others,built and lived in byseafarers, seem tobear the mark of aculture that is noteasily accounted for,except as the expres-sion of an innate re-finement, broadenedby contact with theOld World. In theMassachusetts townsthe detail is more re-fined and seeminglymore intimately re-lated to that of themother countrv thanit is in Newport. Classic tradition wasmore accurately fol-lowed in Massachu-setts, but the crafts-men and designers,though their knowl-edge of their ele-ments was moremanifest, showed nosuperiority in theactual execution
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