Author Description

Excerpt from An Architectural Monograph on Houses of the Southern Colonies The renaissance of Colonial happened at the psychological moment, as all the rebirths in architecture have happened; for while the few architects - and they were few, those of the mid dle nineteenth century - were content and com placent in their fraternal association with the carpenter, there happened to be a small per centage of this baker's dozen of architects who revolted at this immoral association with that cocotte of good taste. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.