FOOTNOTES:[1]This house is known by three different names.[2]OnPlate XXXIIIis presented a modern adaptation of the Carlyle house at Alexandria, which may convey to the reader some faint suggestion of the pleasantness of the original in the hey-day of its prosperity.[3]It was some new kind of love Julia hoped to invent.[4]A kind of looking-glass peculiar to Philadelphia and usually attached to a second-story window, whereby the occupants of a house may “keep tab” of not only whatever is occurring up and down street, but of whoever is bold enough, under the circumstances, to ring the front door bell.[5]The panic of 1837 broke the boom for a while, but it was practically rehabilitated by the inauguration of Harrison in 1841.[6]Within the last year death has removed the faithful mourner, and the house has been turned into a kind of sweat shop, consequently the photograph onPlate XLVIIIcannot be duplicated. The inner doorway of the vestibule has been taken away bodily, no doubt to adorn some modern Colonial house, also the tapering posts of wrought iron, and the starting newel of the staircase. Mockery of an intense drama![7]Pay no attention to the modern Swiss châlets. They are infected with the architectural maladies we have in America.[8]There is one other kind of architect I have failed to include who I believe is indigenous to America. I refer now to the man who can neither draw, design, write specifications nor superintend, and who has no business ability, but who belongs to the genus “angel” of a theatrical company, who pays the rent of an expensive suite of offices, and becomes a special partner, perhaps, but by no stretch of courtesy, I should say, should be truthfully called an architect.[9]Versailles Historical Series—Hardy, Pratt & Co., Boston.
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[1]This house is known by three different names.
[1]This house is known by three different names.
[2]OnPlate XXXIIIis presented a modern adaptation of the Carlyle house at Alexandria, which may convey to the reader some faint suggestion of the pleasantness of the original in the hey-day of its prosperity.
[2]OnPlate XXXIIIis presented a modern adaptation of the Carlyle house at Alexandria, which may convey to the reader some faint suggestion of the pleasantness of the original in the hey-day of its prosperity.
[3]It was some new kind of love Julia hoped to invent.
[3]It was some new kind of love Julia hoped to invent.
[4]A kind of looking-glass peculiar to Philadelphia and usually attached to a second-story window, whereby the occupants of a house may “keep tab” of not only whatever is occurring up and down street, but of whoever is bold enough, under the circumstances, to ring the front door bell.
[4]A kind of looking-glass peculiar to Philadelphia and usually attached to a second-story window, whereby the occupants of a house may “keep tab” of not only whatever is occurring up and down street, but of whoever is bold enough, under the circumstances, to ring the front door bell.
[5]The panic of 1837 broke the boom for a while, but it was practically rehabilitated by the inauguration of Harrison in 1841.
[5]The panic of 1837 broke the boom for a while, but it was practically rehabilitated by the inauguration of Harrison in 1841.
[6]Within the last year death has removed the faithful mourner, and the house has been turned into a kind of sweat shop, consequently the photograph onPlate XLVIIIcannot be duplicated. The inner doorway of the vestibule has been taken away bodily, no doubt to adorn some modern Colonial house, also the tapering posts of wrought iron, and the starting newel of the staircase. Mockery of an intense drama!
[6]Within the last year death has removed the faithful mourner, and the house has been turned into a kind of sweat shop, consequently the photograph onPlate XLVIIIcannot be duplicated. The inner doorway of the vestibule has been taken away bodily, no doubt to adorn some modern Colonial house, also the tapering posts of wrought iron, and the starting newel of the staircase. Mockery of an intense drama!
[7]Pay no attention to the modern Swiss châlets. They are infected with the architectural maladies we have in America.
[7]Pay no attention to the modern Swiss châlets. They are infected with the architectural maladies we have in America.
[8]There is one other kind of architect I have failed to include who I believe is indigenous to America. I refer now to the man who can neither draw, design, write specifications nor superintend, and who has no business ability, but who belongs to the genus “angel” of a theatrical company, who pays the rent of an expensive suite of offices, and becomes a special partner, perhaps, but by no stretch of courtesy, I should say, should be truthfully called an architect.
[8]There is one other kind of architect I have failed to include who I believe is indigenous to America. I refer now to the man who can neither draw, design, write specifications nor superintend, and who has no business ability, but who belongs to the genus “angel” of a theatrical company, who pays the rent of an expensive suite of offices, and becomes a special partner, perhaps, but by no stretch of courtesy, I should say, should be truthfully called an architect.
[9]Versailles Historical Series—Hardy, Pratt & Co., Boston.
[9]Versailles Historical Series—Hardy, Pratt & Co., Boston.