Identifier: centuryillustratv32newy (find matches)
Title: The century illustrated monthly magazine
Year: 1882 (1880s)
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Subjects: American literature
Publisher: New York : Century Co.
Contributing Library: Lincoln Financial Foundation Collection
Digitizing Sponsor: The Institute of Museum and Library Services through an Indiana State Library LSTA Grant

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universally beloved. emanation from the Dismal Swamp. Nor doI exaggerate when I say a dozen tints at atime. I have counted often, and once, for ex-ample, I counted.nine colors in the body of ahouse, with several more in the Scotch-plaid pattern of its roof. And then we borrowed features here and thereand everywhere to give them queer, abortiveshapes in oursoft pine wood. Cornices, brack-ets, balustrades, and pediments of Renaissancelineage ; turrets, pinnacles, finials, and gableswhich had once been Gothic —- all were nowAmericanized together, and were adornedwith decoration that was chiefly, I should say,American in its first estate. And all thedecoration took flat, shallow, mechanical,outline shapes, fitted for execution with thejig-saw and for application with the glue-pot.With these delightful helpers, with the eccentricpaint-brush, and with a clumsy turning-latheand molding-plane — all their colonial skilland grace forgotten — our builder wrought AMERICAN COUNTRY DWELLINGS.
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HOUSE OF MRS. MARY HEMENWAY, MANCHESTER, MASS. both his borrowed and his invented motivesinto structures unlike all else on earth besides,but with such a consistent, persistent familylikeness among themselves, and such an iden-tity of feeling and effect running through alltheir varied items, that they reveal indeed a national style, all the more national sinceit was accepted with such national satis-faction. The rural vernacular was neitherlocal in its birth nor local in the degree ofunanimity with which it was adopted. Itseems to have developed everywhere almostat once, and for a generation its authority waseverywhere supreme. From the tiniest cottageto the most ambitious residence, from thesuburban villa to the huge summer-resort hotel, from the village street to the Newportavenue, everything for a time spoke the samedialect, though, of course, with diversities inemphasis and elaboration. I do not say therewas no dissent. The plain wooden box stillsurvived; occasionally we had a wou

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