American renaissance; a review of domestic architecture

The eye of an artist differs structurally not at all from the eyes of other people. His constant having to do with lines, values and all that, gives him an enviable facility in...

The trick enigmatical nature sometimes plays the gentlest parents by an offspring who, notwithstanding their constant solicitude--the constant bending of the twig--turns out to...

A representative architect in New York city has declared impressively, “We are no longer architects, but adapters!” To him, looking upon his own achievement and that of his cont...

Then there came a time when the legitimate development and prosperity of the colonies produced, not what the forcing box of commercialism has produced--a _moneyed class_ under o...

The milestones of art are the signboards of history. Political moves may or may not signify. Treaties international are usually effected by skilful diplomacy, foes may be bluffe...

The magnificence of this subject, even of a single branch--the domestic phase--is disproportionate to a review in one volume, in the scope of which, I fear, I cannot achieve muc...

Veneration for ancestors, and for what ancestors knew, has not been regarded as an American virtue. Yet there was a time entirely beyond the memory of this generation when tradi...

Not very long ago two enterprising architects in a Western State succeeded in inventing a characteristic style of architecture of some merit. I do not know its name. I am not su...

Alison, Carlyle and all the great historiographers who have essayed the French Revolution go into long preambles of the causes leading up to the principal drama, antedating, by...

It is unfair to place these humble beginnings of American Renaissance beside such highly developed architecture, for example, as English “Country Life” exploits week after week,...

To the brief but brilliant interregnum lasting from the beginning of the nineteenth century until the year 1825 we are indebted for some excellent domestic architecture. The end...

The result of the best adaptation is the gradual formation of a national style of architecture. The closest adaptation that has been exploited in America both in recent and what...