Houses, villas, cottages and bungalows : for Britishers and Americans abroad / by George Gordon Samson.

  • Samson, G. Gordon.
Date:
1910
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Licence: In copyright

Credit: Houses, villas, cottages and bungalows : for Britishers and Americans abroad / by George Gordon Samson. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    The Beneficence of Interchange of Thought in Matters Relating to the Building of the Home between One Nation and Another. In no country has the art of building a home arrived at such a state of excellence but that it must benefit much by the study of the ways in which in other countries and amongst other peoples the same matters are dealt with and similar or dis- similar results achieved. In every country there is a very great tendency in building the home to do cer- tain things in certain fixed ways, not so much because there now exists any special reason that makes those special ways the best, as because from time immemorial in these particular regions these particular things have been done in these special ways. Often the reason for a particular formation has passed away hundreds of years before any one thinks of ceasing to regard that particular formation as the one
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