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Title: American homes and gardens
Identifier: americanhomesgar11905newy (find matches)
Year: 1905 (1900s)
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Subjects: Architecture, Domestic; Landscape gardening
Publisher: New York : Munn and Co
Contributing Library: Smithsonian Libraries
Digitizing Sponsor: Biodiversity Heritage Library

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Stewardson, the Philadelphia architects, and masterworks of collegiate Gothic in America; a group of buildings that speak, in every stone, of true Gothic feeling and penetrating modernity, the new interpretation of Gothic which must do so much to revive this fine old art that, in its Victorian re- vival, was so ill used and so little understood. It is in these and in other new buildings, similar in style and in feeling, that Princeton University proclaims her new architectural supremacy, and which give both the University and the town an interest and a beauty that they have never had before. For, architecturally, old Princeton—the Uni-
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" Drumthwacket "—The Fountain indifferent observer. The most ignorant of travelers would know it was a university town, for on the instant of his ar- rival he is confronted with the massive bulk of the great tower of Blair Hall, a beautiful, stately structure that forms one of a great group of dormitories that stretch along the outer border of the University campus until they fetch up against the gymnasium. A splendid group of buildings these, a unit in design, whether they be called Blair Hall, Stafford Little Hall or Gymnasium; an irregular group, ascending and descending, twisting and turning, as the conformation of the land determined; masterworks of Messrs. Cope & versity—had few buildings of interest, however great may be the affection with which they were and are regarded by the older graduates. If the old buildings no longer seem to have interest it is apparent that the new will long maintain theirs—and add to it as decade passes decade. The University, that meets one at the gate, permeates the whole town. Whether, to the real Princetonian, there be a difference between the University and the town I do not know; but to the chance visitor there is no distinction between the two. It is the University which has made the town, and the town, on its part, gathers around the University as

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