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| HOUSE AT MONUMENT BEACH, BUZZARDS BAY, MASS. | W. R. EMERSON, Architect. |
| Stained with Dexter Bros. English Shingle Stains (Dark Brown). | |
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| HOUSE AT WOBURN, MASS. | E. A. P. NEWCOMB, Architect. |
| Stained with Dexter Bros. English Shingle Stains. | |
Dexter Bros., 55 and 57 Broad Street, Boston, Mass.
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| HOUSE AT CHESTNUT HILL, BROOKLINE, MASS. | W. R. EMERSON, Architect. |
| Stained with Dexter Bros. English Shingle Stains. | |
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| HOUSE AT BROOKLINE, MASS. View from Rear. | KENDALL & STEVENS, Architects. |
| Stained with Dexter Bros. English Shingle Stains (Body No. 12, Roof No.31). | |
Dexter Bros., 55 and 57 Broad Street, Boston, Mass.
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| HOUSE AT BAR HARBOR, ME. | W. R. EMERSON, Architect. |
| Stained with Dexter Bros. English Shingle Stains (Dark Brown). | |
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| HOUSE IN BROOKLINE, MASS. | EUGENE L. CLARK, Architect. |
| Stained with Dexter Bros. English Shingle Stain (No. 4). | |
Dexter Bros., 55 and 57 Broad Street, Boston, Mass.
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| HOUSE AT NEWPORT, R.I. | W. R. EMERSON, Architect. |
| Stained with Dexter Bros. English Shingle Stains. | |
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| HOUSE AT ROXBURY, MASS. | GAY & PROCTOR, Architects. |
| Stained with Dexter Bros. English Shingle Stains (Roof No. 11, Walls No.41). | |
Dexter Bros., 55 and 57 Broad Street, Boston, Mass.
HOUSES ON
THE GODDARD ESTATE,
BROOKLINE, MASS.
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 | SHEPLEY, RUTAN & COOLIDGE, Architects. | |
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STAINED WITH
DEXTER BROS.
ENGLISH
SHINGLE STAINS.
LXXXIX.
Old Houses, Hanover, England.
XC.
Middle House, Mayfield, Sussex, England.
XCI.
Worsley, Old Hall, England.
XCII.
Speke Hall, England.
XCIII.
Speke Hall, England.
[ The Brochure Series]
OF ARCHITECTURAL ILLUSTRATION.
| Vol. I. | DECEMBER, 1895. | No. 12. |
ENGLISH COUNTRY HOUSES.
OLD HOUSE NEAR WARWICK. SKETCH BY WILSON EYRE, Jr.
From The Architectural Review, Vol. IV, No. 1.
Mr Wilson Eyre, Jr., in an article in The Architectural Review for January, which has been alluded to in our issue for October, and from which we have borrowed the three charming illustrations reproduced from his drawings, speaks as follows of English domestic architecture:
“There is much to be seen from the railroad in the way of long rambling farmhouses and country houses of the modest kind, and there is much to be gained by studying these for use in our own domestic architecture; their average work is so much less pretentious, so much more homelike than ours; their surroundings are studied so carefully, the garden forming as much part of the house as the roof, and great pains being taken that the garden wall, hedges, terraces, the little tea houses, in fact all the immediate surroundings, should form a harmonious effect. Photographs and measured drawings of the well-known and monumental buildings are at hand whenever we need them, but no idea can be gained, except from personal study, of the completeness and fitness of the country houses and farmhouses and of their surroundings, their “flocks of gables,” the grouping and
composition which through the most careful study arrive at the entirely unstudied and almost haphazard effect, and above all the impression produced that the building belongs to the spot upon which it is built and to no other. This is what makes the English domestic work better, to my mind, than any I have seen, and so well worthy of study, especially by our American architects.”
OLD HOUSE, LICHFIELD.
SKETCH BY WILSON EYRE, Esq.
From The Architectural Review, Vol. IV, No. 1.
The one distinguishing characteristic upon which all observers agree when comparing the houses of England with those of any other country is the importance given to the idea of a “home.” This idea of the family life, more fully carried out by the Anglo-Saxon race than by any other, has given rise to conditions differing essentially from those governing the domestic architecture of other races. As pointed out in the last issue in speaking of the country houses of France, the impulse to associate in communities has been a stronger power in moulding the domestic architecture of France than the desire to have an independent home. In England the isolated house is the type. The social unit is the family, and consequently the architectural unit is the “home.” The English character has given to the family an independence and privacy, a permanence and sacredness which are all reflected in the English houses, and it is this which makes them homes. The evidence of these characteristics is what has attracted Mr. Eyre and many other Americans besides, and will continue to do so for years to come.
CHAPEL, DEERHURST.
SKETCH BY WILSON EYRE, Jr.
From The Architectural Review, Vol. IV, No. 1.
English architecture is not all and never has been all of the sort here indicated, but where it departs from this type we feel the peculiar charm somewhat lacking. The early Saxon hut, the Norman castle, have each their especial interest, and we feel that the home has culminated in the Elizabethan and Tudor mansions and the simpler homes of later days which are adjusted to the needs of the family and suited to its surroundings,
because built honestly with due regard to the necessities, and even if, as Ruskin says, their detail is abominable and there is no precedent, no right nor reason in the square drip moulding over the windows, yet we love them as a whole, and cannot help feeling that they expressed truly the story they were intended to tell. But we do not feel the same instinctive attraction in the Palladian mansions of Jones, however accurately classical are their proportions or their mouldings, nor in any other of the dignified importations transplanted from Greece or Rome and forced to grow on uncongenial soil. They must ever be to us exotics, with perhaps the beauty of the exotic, but without the homely qualities which endear to us the real home.
XCIV.
Smithells, England.
XCV.
Saintesbury Hall, England.
[LXXXIX.]
OLD HOUSES, HANOVER, ENGLAND.
[XC.]
MIDDLE HOUSE, MAYFIELD, SUSSEX, ENGLAND.
[XCI.]
OLD HALL, WORSLEY, ENGLAND.
[XCII] AND [XCIII].
SPEKE HALL, ENGLAND.
[XCIV.]
SMITHELLS, ENGLAND.
[XCV.]
SAINTESBURY HALL, ENGLAND.
[XCVI] TO [XCVIII].
OLD MANOR HOUSE, LYTHE HILL, ENGLAND.
[XCIX.]
OLD FARM HOUSE, LYTHE HILL, ENGLAND.
[C.]
THE GATE HOUSE, STOKESAY CASTLE, ENGLAND.