Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 22, Number 59, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 12 April 1901 — As an Englishman Sees Us. [ARTICLE]

As an Englishman Sees Us.

“The new- Washington,” says an English writer in the London Spectator, “is clean and beautiful. It is doubfuL whether any such delightful residential street as Massachusetts avenue is to be found on tlie globe. American domestic architecture is as successful as public architecture, is expensive and often bad, but in these Washington avenues it is carried to the height of comfort and beauty. The green, well watered, fenceless lawns, the grouping of gables and oriels, the pretty porches and exquisite trees and flowers combine to give a most delightful series of pictures. There is not tlie ostentation of New York or Chicago, but there is more charm.” ,